Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
The Decameron 2004
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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
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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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.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The cause of oure security at this present, is rather suffered by your pacience, then by our desert.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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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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Tuj li balancas la kapon kaj komencas pacience rakonti pri la venkoj kaj malvenkoj ( "defeats").
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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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.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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Not enuiynge, but bearinge with loue and pacience, -- 812
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Pacience thee teacheth therof to beare the yoke. where pacience and loue to-gether do dwell 824
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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My Lord of Surrey, and Sir Thomas Palmer, might I with pacience tempte your graue aduise.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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