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patience

pa·tience [ páysh'nss ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. capacity for waiting: the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties
I was beginning to run out of patience.

2. U.K. card games 
Same as  solitaire (sense 1)


[12th century. Via French< Latin patientia< patient- (see patient)]

lose (your) patience (with somebody) to become exasperated by somebody

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