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Patient of   /pˈeɪʃənt əv/   Listen
Patient of

adjective
1.
Showing the capacity for endurance.  Synonym: tolerant.  "A man patient of distractions"






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"Patient of" Quotes from Famous Books



... him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable[64] of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observation, patient of neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time,—happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly. Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure that prompts him to tell his brother ...
— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... that to you," replied De Gex. "You have many ways and means within your power. He is a patient of yours," he added grimly. ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux

... the axe glaunced, and withall pared off a great piece of Blunt's skull, which was very dangerous and longe in healinge: but he recovered, and after married the Countesse; who took this soe ill, as that she, with Blunt, deliberated and resolved to dispatch the Earle. The Earle, not patient of this soe greate wrong of his wife, purposed to carry her to Kenilworth; and to leave here there untill her death by naturall or by violent means, but rather by the last. The Countesse also having a suspicion, or some secret intelligence of this treachery against her, provided artificial meanes ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 • Various

... and I "house-hunted." We engaged a nurse to look after the future patient of the "sanitarium" while we did our best to look for the sanitarium itself. Mr. Matthews gave us the addresses of real estate agents and we journeyed from suburb to suburb and from seashore to hills. We saw several ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... this, but he is in part the cause of it. Great ideas are dangerous guests in narrow minds; and thus it has happened that Darwin—the most patient of scientific workers, in whom hypothesis waited upon research, or if it provisionally outstepped it did so only with the most scrupulously careful acknowledgment—has led smaller and less conscientious men ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others


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