noun
definition
The quality of being patient.
definition
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
Examples of patience in a Sentence
What little patience he had was waning fast.
There was a limit to his patience, and she had crossed it.
Finally, his patience wore thin.
At the end of her patience, she rose.
Just exercise a little caution, have patience, good equipment and lots of common sense.
She didn't have the patience or interest to be a real personal assistant.
I never had patience to arrange more than five or six groups at a time.
Gabriel gave her a harried look, one that said his patience was at an end.
God, give me patience.
I.m losing patience with you, my pet.
Fred asked, his patience hitting the wall.
One of them is the precious science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country, leisurely, our minds hospitably open to impressions of every sort.
War disrupts this, and people will have little patience for it if there is not an extremely compelling reason for it.
For that, not storming and attacking but patience and time are wanted.
Darian was too intense to appear relaxed, but he was waiting with a predator's patience to see what she'd do.
He has no patience for your games.
She wasn't good at handling drama; Evelyn had always been like a perfect older sister, capable of patience and listening.
It took a pot and a half of coffee and a lot of patience before Dean learned just how complicated the Scranton excursion and return trip had been.
Patience wasn't his strong suit and Mrs. Lincoln and jazz music somehow weren't sufficient evening entertainment.
Do not try my patience!
His long life enabled him to perfect the organization of Methodism and to inspire his preachers and people with his own ideals, while he had conquered opposition by unwearying patience and by close adherence to the principles which he sought to teach.
His patience was inexhaustible.
The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house.
The greatest tool you'll need is patience.
It was just a matter of patience.
Having been raised to serve his dhjan within the boundaries imposed on him, Ne'Rin would have little patience with one who trounced the boundaries that should have been emplaced upon her.
Accordingly, when the DemocraticRepublican party came to be formed, about 1793, it was not to be expected that its leaders would long submit with patience to the continual interposition of Washington's name and influence between themselves and their opponents; but they maintained a calm exterior.
In the few years that remained to him he gave himself with patience and dignity to the work of his life.
For the Norman Conquest itself strictly contemporary evidence is extremely scanty, and historians have exhausted their own and their readers patience in.
Gabriel was waiting with the patience of Death, though he'd started to tense, indicating his guard was going up once more.
But he had no patience with a single monk who, led astray by his private judgment, set himself against the faith held by all Christians for a thousand years.
Still the Knights had been driven beyond the Vistula, and Poland had secured a seaboard; and it was due entirely to the infinite patience and tenacity of the king that even as much as this was won at last.
Coke did not suffer these losses with patience.
He regained many, such as his friend Flaminio, by patience and kindliness, to a reconsideration of their errors.
At this the patience of the Jews was exhausted.
The church key reminds him that "it is my sin that locks his handes," and the stones of the floor are patience and humility, while the cement that binds them together is love and.
Its members showed no patience with doctrinal innovations, even such moderate ones as John Huss represented.
In other varieties of Patience the object is to make pairs, which are then discarded, the game being brought to a successful conclusion when all the cards have been paired; or to pair cards which will together make certain numbers, and then discard as before.
Though he is wanting in moderation and in luminous warmth, his tones are by no means always harsh; and as an author he ever aspired with longing after humility and love and patience, though his whole life was lived in the atmosphere of conflict.
But Charles had none of the patience and commonsense which had enabled Louis XVIII.
For success in coping with this difficulty, as well as in dealing with the whole question of the cultivation and employment of wild silks, the unwearying patience and great skill of Sir Thomas Wardle of Leek deserve special mention here.
There is a life of Henry by his chaplain John Blakman (printed at the end of Hearne's edition of Otterbourne); but it is concerned only with his piety and patience in adversity.
The first care of the new pope was to pave the way for the restoration of peace with Russia and the German Empire, and it was owing to his patience, persistence and energy that these efforts for peace were crowned with success.
But, if he have patience, he will see it mount aloft and there execute a series of aerial evolutions of an astounding kind.
Thus precious time was lost, violent antagonisms were called forth, the patience of the nation was exhausted, and the reactionary forces were able to gather strength for once more asserting themselves.
Composed of a congeries of nationalities which included Czechs, Magyars, Ruthenes, Rumanians, Germans, Italians, Flemings and other races, and with territories separated by many miles, the Habsburg dominions required from their ruler patience, tolerance, administrative skill and a full knowledge of the currents of European diplomacy.
The Poronai flows south-south-east to the Gulf of Patience or Shichiro Bay, on the south-east coast.
The disciplined philosopher, who had devoted himself to the task of comprehending the organism of the state, had no patience with feebler or more mercurial minds who recklessly laid hands on established ordinances, and set them aside where they contravened humanitarian sentiments.
For irrigation, native patience and ingenuity have devised means which compare not unfavourably with the colossal projects of government.
The ambitious policy and the continuous wars of Lord Wellesley exhausted the patience of the court of directors at home.