Patience, poem

Patience: 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.
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patience, card game

patience: 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.
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Patience

See also Longsuffering.

Amelia

idealized personification of patience and perseverance. [Br. Lit.: Amelia]

dock bloom

symbolizes patience. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 454]

Enid

constant and patient wife of Sir Geraint. [Welsh Lit.: Mabinogion; Br. Lit.: “Idylls of the King”]

Griselda

lady immortalized for patience and wifely obedience. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Clerk of Oxenford’s Tale”]

Hermione

bore Leontes’ unfounded jealousy, thus gaining his love. [Br. Lit.: The Winter’s Tale]

Jacob

serves Laban for fourteen years before receiving permission to marry Rachel. [O.T.: Gen. 24:34]

Job

underwent trial by God at Satan’s suggestion. [O.T.: Job]

Penelope Odysseus’

wife; model of feminine virtue, waits twenty years for husband’s return. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]

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Patience, poem

patience, card game

Patience
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