patience
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,685 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,817 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence also: forbearance, longanimity
- a card game played by one person also: solitaire
patience in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The brute hadn’t patience enough to wait for the dinner.
The Lerouge Case · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He laughed and laughed and laughed, until finally Unc' Billy quite lost patience.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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Now the patience of my reader may fairly be considered a “private right.”
The Attaché · Thomas Chandler Haliburton · Chapter 1
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And did a secret sympathy possess That tender soul, and for the slave's redress Lend hope, strength, patience?
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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Cambyses listened to this sentence, borrowed from the golden maxims of Pythagoras, and smiled bitterly at the word "patience."
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1