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Patience, poemPatience: see Pearl, The Pearl, The, one of four Middle English alliterative poems, all contained in a manuscript of c.1400, composed in the West Midland dialect, almost certainly by the same anonymous author, who flourished c.1370–1390...... Click the link for more information. . patience, card gamepatience: see solitaire solitaire or patience, any card game that can be played by one person. Solitaire is the American name; in England it is known as patience. There are probably more kinds of solitaire than all other card games together...... Click the link for more information. . patience Chiefly Brit any of various card games for one player only, in which the cards may be laid out in various combinations as the player tries to use up the whole pack Patience See also Longsuffering. Amelia idealized personification of patience and perseverance. [Br. Lit.: Amelia]
symbolizes patience. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 454] constant and patient wife of Sir Geraint. [Welsh Lit.: Mabinogion; Br. Lit.: “Idylls of the King”] lady immortalized for patience and wifely obedience. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Clerk of Oxenford’s Tale”] bore Leontes’ unfounded jealousy, thus gaining his love. [Br. Lit.: The Winter’s Tale] serves Laban for fourteen years before receiving permission to marry Rachel. [O.T.: Gen. 24:34] underwent trial by God at Satan’s suggestion. [O.T.: Job] wife; model of feminine virtue, waits twenty years for husband’s return. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But I hear only slow death preached, and patience with all that is "earthly. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. The patience of waiting, when he wanted to go home and when Steward continued to sit at table and talk and drink beer, was his, as was the patience of the rope around the neck, the fence too high to scale, the narrowed- walled room with the closed door which he could never unlatch but which humans unlatched so easily. |
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