PATIENCE.

PA'TIENCE. With God, patience is a form of his infinite love which causes him to bear long with sinners, Isa 30:18; Rom 3:25; 2 Pet 3:9, and to send them warnings of judgments before the judgments are executed. Hos 6:5; Am 1:1; 2 Pet 2:5, With man, patience is a grace enabling him to bear with meekness and confidence the trials which God sends him, Rom 2:7; 2 Tim 3:10, and to deal with his fellow-men with love and forbearance. 1 Thess 5:14. In many passages of our English Version where "patience" occurs, "endurance" or " constancy " would be a better rendering of the Greek (???).

PA'TIENCE. With God, patience is a form of his infinite love which causes him to bear long with sinners, Isa 30:18; Rom 3:25; 2 Pet 3:9, and to send them warnings of judgments before the judgments are executed. Hos 6:5;

Am 1:1; 2 Pet 2:5, With man, patience is a grace enabling him to bear with meekness and confidence the trials which God sends him, Rom 2:7; 2 Tim 3:10, and to deal with his fellow-men with love and forbearance. 1 Thess 5:14. In many passages of our English Version where "patience" occurs, "endurance" or " constancy " would be a better rendering of the Greek (???).

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. Strenthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. Keble.

2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance. Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 29.

3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. Harte.

4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] Hooker. They stay upon your patience. Shak.

5. A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

6. Solitaire.

Synonyms: Patience, Resignation. Patience implies the quietness or self- possession of one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.; resignation implies submission to the will of another. The Stoic may have patience; the Christian should have both patience and resignation.