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Patience

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Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

490. Patience (See also Longsuffering.)

  1. Amelia idealized personification of patience and perseverance. [Br. Lit.: Amelia ]
  2. dock bloom symbolizes patience. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 454]
  3. Enid constant and patient wife of Sir Geraint. [Welsh Lit.: Mabinogion ; Br. Lit.: “Idylls of the King”]
  4. Griselda lady immortalized for patience and wifely obedience. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Clerk of Oxenford’s Tale”]
  5. Hermione bore Leontes’ unfounded jealousy, thus gaining his love. [Br. Lit.: The Winter’s Tale ]
  6. Jacob serves Laban for fourteen years before receiving permission to marry Rachel. [O.T.: Gen. 24:34]
  7. Job underwent trial by God at Satan’s suggestion. [O.T.: Job]
  8. Penelope Odysseus’ wife; model of feminine virtue, waits twenty years for husband’s return. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey ]
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patience

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

pa·tience / ˈpāshəns/ • n. 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset: you can find bargains if you have the patience to sift through the dross. 2. chiefly British term for solitaire (sense 1). PHRASES: lose patience (or lose one's patience) become unable to keep one's temper: even Lawrence finally lost patience with him.

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Patience

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Patience ♀ From the vocabulary word denoting one of the Seven Christian Virtues. The vocabulary word is derived from Latin pati ‘to suffer’, and was associated by the early Christians with those who endured persecution and misfortune without complaint or loss of faith. It was a favourite with the Puritans, but fell out of regular use in the 20th century.
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patience

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

patience XIII. — (O)F. — L. patientia, f. patiēns, -ent-, prp. of patī suffer.
So patient suffering or enduring without complaint XIV; capable of XVII. — (O)F. — L.; as sb. †sufferer; one under medical treatment XIV.
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patience

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

patience God's reasonable anger with his sinful people is patiently restrained (Isa. 48: 9), and this is a characteristic that should be imitated by Christians confronted with human failings (Matt. 18: 26; Eph. 4: 2) and an uncertain future (Jas. 5: 7).
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Patience

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Patience, an alliterative poem in 531 lines from the second half of the 14th cent., the only manuscript of which is the famous Cotton Nero A x (see Pearl). It tells in a vigorous and humorous way the story of Jonah and his trials sent by God.
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Patience

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Copyright

Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride. Operetta in 2 acts by Sullivan to lib. by Gilbert. Comp. 1880–1. Prod. London 1881, St Louis 1881, NY 1882. Satire on ‘aesthetic’ movt. Ov. arranged by Eugen d'Albert.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Patience, an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan produced in 1881, a deliberate satire on the Aesthetic Movement, in which Bunthorne is said to be modelled on Wilde and Grosvenor on Swinburne.
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patience

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2007 | Copyright

patience see solitaire .

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Patience see Pearl, The .

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

patience •abeyance, conveyance, purveyance •creance • ambience •irradiance, radiance •expedience, obedience •audience •dalliance, mésalliance •salience •consilience, resilience •emollience • ebullience •convenience, lenience, provenience •impercipience, incipience, percipience •variance • experience •luxuriance, prurience •nescience • omniscience •insouciance • deviance •subservience • transience •alliance, appliance, compliance, defiance, misalliance, neuroscience, reliance, science •allowance •annoyance, clairvoyance, flamboyance •fluence, pursuance •perpetuance • affluence • effluence •mellifluence • confluence •congruence • issuance • continuance •disturbance •attendance, dependence, interdependence, resplendence, superintendence, tendance, transcendence •cadence •antecedence, credence, impedance •riddance • diffidence • confidence •accidence • precedence • dissidence •coincidence, incidence •evidence •improvidence, providence •residence •abidance, guidance, misguidance, subsidence •correspondence, despondence •accordance, concordance, discordance •avoidance, voidance •imprudence, jurisprudence, prudence •impudence • abundance • elegance •arrogance • extravagance •allegiance • indigence •counter-intelligence, intelligence •negligence • diligence • intransigence •exigence •divulgence, effulgence, indulgence, refulgence •convergence, divergence, emergence, insurgence, resurgence, submergence •significance •balance, counterbalance, imbalance, outbalance, valance •parlance • repellence • semblance •bivalence, covalence, surveillance, valence •sibilance • jubilance • vigilance •pestilence • silence • condolence •virulence • ambulance • crapulence •flatulence • feculence • petulance •opulence • fraudulence • corpulence •succulence, truculence •turbulence • violence • redolence •indolence • somnolence • excellence •insolence • nonchalance •benevolence, malevolence •ambivalence, equivalence •Clemence • vehemence •conformance, outperformance, performance •adamance • penance • ordinance •eminence • imminence •dominance, prominence •abstinence • maintenance •continence • countenance •sustenance •appurtenance, impertinence, pertinence •provenance • ordnance • repugnance •ordonnance • immanence •impermanence, permanence •assonance • dissonance • consonance •governance • resonance • threepence •halfpence • sixpence •comeuppance, tuppence, twopence •clarence, transparence •aberrance, deterrence, inherence, Terence •remembrance • entrance •Behrens, forbearance •fragrance • hindrance • recalcitrance •abhorrence, Florence, Lawrence, Lorentz •monstrance •concurrence, co-occurrence, occurrence, recurrence •encumbrance •adherence, appearance, clearance, coherence, interference, perseverance •assurance, durance, endurance, insurance •exuberance, protuberance •preponderance • transference •deference, preference, reference •difference • inference • conference •sufferance • circumference •belligerence • tolerance • ignorance •temperance • utterance • furtherance •irreverence, reverence, severance •deliverance • renascence • absence •acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, excrescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence, tumescence •obeisance, Renaissance •puissance •impuissance, reminiscence •beneficence, maleficence •magnificence, munificence •reconnaissance • concupiscence •reticence •licence, license •nonsense •nuisance, translucence •innocence • conversance • sentience •impatience, patience •conscience •repentance, sentence •acceptance • acquaintance •acquittance, admittance, intermittence, pittance, quittance, remittance •assistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, existence, insistence, outdistance, persistence, resistance, subsistence •instance • exorbitance •concomitance •impenitence, penitence •appetence •competence, omnicompetence •inheritance • capacitance • hesitance •Constance • importance • potence •conductance, inductance, reluctance •substance • circumstance •omnipotence • impotence •inadvertence • grievance •irrelevance, relevance •connivance, contrivance •observance • sequence • consequence •subsequence • eloquence •grandiloquence, magniloquence •brilliance • poignance •omnipresence, pleasance, presence •complaisance • malfeasance •incognizance, recognizance •usance • recusance

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