Pa"tience (?), n. [F. patience, fr. L. patientia. See Patient.] 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.