- The state or quality of being patient; the power of
suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs,
as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. - The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for
something due or hoped for; forbearance. - Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. - Sufferance; permission. - A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America
than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. - Solitaire.
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