Bible Dictionaries
Patience

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Solitaire.

(2):

(n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.

(3):

(n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.

(4):

(n.) Sufferance; permission.

(5):

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

(6):

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Patience'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/patience.html. 1828.