patience
/ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/ noun B1- The quality of being patient. · Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.· I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it.
Plural patiences
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“You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!”
“It is amazing to me,” said Bingley, “how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.”
“I am sure,” she added, “if it was not for such good friends, I do not know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I ever met with.
Even Elizabeth might have found some trial of her patience in weather which totally suspended the improvement of her acquaintance with Mr.
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