Category:Patience

Pa"tience, n. Etym: [f. patience, fr. L. patientia. See patient.]

1. 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. Strengthened with all might,. . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hath learned lowliness from his lord's cradle, patience from his Cross. Keble.

2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance. Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 29.

3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. Harte.

4. Sufferance; permission. [obs.] Hooker. They stay upon your patience. Shak.

5. (bot.)

Defn: a kind of dock (rumex patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

6. (card playing)

Defn: solitaire.

Syn. -- patience, resignation. Patience implies the quietness or self- possession of one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.; resignation implies submission to the will of another. The stoic may have patience; the Christian should have both patience and resignation.

The Virtue of Patience
Patience is good-natured tolerance of delay, the capacity, habit, or fact of being patient. It is also waiting peacefully. Quiet hope and faith that things will turn out right. The ability to endure delay, trouble, pain or hardship. Accepting a difficult situation from God without giving Him a deadline to remove it. (Romans 5:3–4) Accepting difficult situations without demanding a deadline to remove it.