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View Name: Patience


PATIENCE
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: PAY-shənts   [key]
Meaning & History
From the English word patience, ultimately from Latin patientia, a derivative of pati "to suffer". This was one of the virtue names coined by the Puritans in the 17th century.
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