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Noun Plural: patience
patience - good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
		forbearance, longanimity
		good nature a cheerful, obliging disposition
patience - a card game played by one person
		solitaire
		card game, cards a game played with playing cards
		canfield a form of solitaire that involves gambling
		klondike a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time

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patience (n.)
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.
patience (n.)
The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
patience (n.)
Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
patience (n.)
Sufferance; permission.
patience (n.)
A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
patience (n.)
Solitaire.

patience
pā′shens, n. quality of being patient or able calmly to endure: (Shak.) permission: a card-game, same as Solitaire (q.v.).—adj. Pā′tient, sustaining pain, &c., without repining: not easily provoked: not in a hurry: persevering: expecting with calmness: long-suffering.—n. one who bears or suffers: a person under medical treatment.—adv. Pā′tiently. [Fr.,—L. patentia—patiens—pati, to bear.]

patience
The power or faculty of suffering; endurance; the power of expecting long, without rage or discontent; the power of supporting faults or injuries, without revenge; long suffering. In military life, patience is an essential requisite. Without patience half the toils of war would be insupportable; with patience there are scarcely any hardships but what coolness, courage, and ability may overcome. It is one of the greatest virtues, indeed, in an officer or soldier patiently to support, not only the rigor of discipline, but the keen and vexatious circumstances of disappointment.