patience

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It requires loads of love, patience and restraint.

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good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

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noun

good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

noun

a card game played by one person

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for patience.

noun

good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

noun

a card game played by one person

Example sentences

It requires loads of love, patience and restraint.

I do not have the time nor the patience to dig at all of Andys points.

No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.

Thank you for\n your patience while we await Al Gore's instruction!

Well, that's fine, if you know what to do and how to do it, and you have the time and patience.

This is why we need to delete this page and move away from Facebook. They're scumbags and we just don't have the patience for scumbags.

I would suggest that when dealing with a large organization like Apple patience and persistence is the key.

In this impressive document, Prof Astrachan also shows that he has an infinite patience.

To talk about traits like intelligence and patience in terms of what they are: winnings in the genetic lottery, rather than as the result of moral virtue.

Every day, long diatribes about the horrors of sexism that restate the same old bullshit and gets everyone worked up with no further understanding or patience derived from them.

The amount of patience, perseverance and determination required to make this a successful venture is enormous, but add to that the ridicule and criticism of your peers and it must be extremely difficult.