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.-the act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.-constancy in labor or application; perseverance.-sufferance; permission.-a kind of dock (rumex patientia), less common in america than in europe; monk's rhubarb.-solitaire.