Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Obsolete forms of patience, patient.
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Examples
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But I am not ignorant, that you being vertuous, and a judicious Scholler, have an invincible spirit of pacience, and sufficient understanding withall; that what this night could not affoord, another may make a sound amends for.
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The Queene our soueraigne Lady to declare that she was nothing ignorant of those secret practizes, though she had long with great wisdome and pacience dissembled it, writeth this ditty most sweet and sententious, not hiding from all such aspiring minds the daunger of their ambition and disloyaltie: which afterward fell out most truly by th'exemplary chastisement of sundry persons, who in fauour of the said
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For ye haue neade of pacience/that after ye haue doone the will of God/ye might receyue the promise.
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Who brought certain newes that the Duke was comen in persone to fetche his wife, and that he caried her awaye with him by Sea; wherewithal he was marueilously out of pacience, determining neuerthelesse one daye when his affaires were in good order, to go visite her at Thurin.
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The cause of oure security at this present, is rather suffered by your pacience, then by our desert.
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Tuj li balancas la kapon kaj komencas pacience rakonti pri la venkoj kaj malvenkoj ( "defeats").
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Reader, I am too craue thy pacience and paynes (good reader) in bearing wyth such faultes as haue escapte in printing: and in correcting as wel such as are layd downe heere too thy view, as all oother whereat thou shalt hap too stumble in perusing this treatise.
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Not enuiynge, but bearinge with loue and pacience, -- 812
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Pacience thee teacheth therof to beare the yoke. where pacience and loue to-gether do dwell 824
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My Lord of Surrey, and Sir Thomas Palmer, might I with pacience tempte your graue aduise.
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