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Patience

Pronunciation: PAY-shehnts (key)

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Origin of the name Patience:

Taken from patience (waiting without complaint, forebearance, calm endurance), which is derived from the Latin pati (to suffer).

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Pat, Patty, Paish,

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There is a Saint Patience whose feast day April 9
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"Patience" by Guns N' Roses

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