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patience
1. The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2. An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay; such as, to have patience with a slow learner.
3. Quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence.
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patience (s) (noun), patiences (pl)
The capacity, habit, or fact of being calm and enduring pain, or affliction, with composure and without complaint; calm endurance, forbearance: When Jane was making some bread using yeast, she had to have a lot of patience for the dough to rise.

A lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

—Ken Hubbard

Endurance is patience concentrated.

—Thomas Carlyle

He that can have patience can have what he will.

—Benjamin Franklin

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

—Chinese Proverb

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

—Hal Borland

Patience is a quality that is most needed when it is exhausted and it's also the ability to do something else while waiting. Patience is the most important virtue to cultivate if you are always punctual.

—Evan Esar

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

—Laurence J. Peter

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

—Bulgarian proverb
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patience, patients
patience (PAY shuhns) (noun)
The condition of being calm without complaining; steadfastness: Patricia's mother had a lot of patience when she was practicing the piano.

Her mother's patience paid off when Patricia actually became a famous concert pianist.

patients (PAY shuhns) (noun)
Several individuals who receive medical care and supervision: Doctor Bergman's patients were waiting for her when she arrived at the clinic.

Dr. Berman said she was also going out to the Street Clinic to see the patients who were living on the street.

Sometimes people have to wait so long just to see a doctor that some of the patients lose their patience.

Patience is power; with time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

—Chinese Proverb
Quotes: Patience
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indulgent patience
A pleonasm or a repetition of two words both of which mean yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent.
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