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patience
English
Etymology
From Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia. Displaced native Middle English thuld, thuild (“patience”) (from Old English þyld (“patience”)), Middle English thole (“patience”) (from Old Norse þol (“patience, endurance”)), Middle English bil?fing, bileaving (“patience, perseverance, remaining”) (from Old English bel?fan (“to endure, survive”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pe???ns/
Noun
patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)
- The quality of being patient.
- Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
Synonyms
- thild
- thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)
Antonyms
- impatience
Related terms
- passion
- passionate
- passive
- passivity
- patient
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: pasensi
Translations
Further reading
- patience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- patience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
See also
- clock patience
- garden patience
French
Etymology
From Old French pacience, borrowed from Latin patientia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.sj??s/
Noun
patience f (plural patiences)
- patience
Derived terms
- perdre patience
- prendre son mal en patience
Related terms
- patient
Further reading
- “patience” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
patience
- Alternative form of pacience
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allowance
English
Alternative forms
- allowaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French alouance.
Morphologically allow +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??la??ns/
Noun
allowance (countable and uncountable, plural allowances)
- permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- Acknowledgment.
- That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II
- After making the largest allowance for fraud.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II
- (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
- (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- Antonym: penalty
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
- (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- (obsolete) approval; approbation
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabbe to this entry?)
- (obsolete) license; indulgence
- 1695, John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity
- this Allowance for their Transgressions
- 1695, John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity
Synonyms
- (act of allowing): authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance.
- (money): stipend
- (minting): remedy, tolerance
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
allowance (third-person singular simple present allowances, present participle allowancing, simple past and past participle allowanced)
- (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
- (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
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