Dictionary
pa·tience (pa'sh?ns) pronunciation
n.
1. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.
2. Chiefly British. The game solitaire.
SYNONYMS patience, long-suffering, resignation, forbearance. These nouns denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint. Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay: Our patience will achieve more than our force (Edmund Burke). Long-suffering is long and patient endurance, as of wrong or provocation: The general, a man not known for docility and long-suffering, flew into a rage. Resignation implies acceptance of or submission to something trying, as out of despair or necessity: I undertook the job with an air of resignation. Forbearance denotes restraint, as in retaliating, demanding what is due, or voicing disapproval: ?It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other? (Patrick Henry).
Some of you need to go to the store and buy some, I think some of the people around here actually wait up at night hoping to find someone who broke a rule so they can pounce on them, GROW UP! True there is some slime that comes creeping through here, however a lot of folk just aren't familiar with this forum, wouldn't it be better to either ignore a thread like this or have it locked rather then let it denegrate into a thread verbally abusing the author of the original post????
