单词 | patiency |
释义 | patiencyn. 1. Forbearance, patience. Also (occasionally) as a count noun: a source of patience or fortitude; an exercise of patience. rare (poetic) after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance mercya1225 tholea1325 patiencyc1350 patiencea1382 abidingc1384 sustentationc1384 tack1412 tolerancya1556 digesture1567 toleration1582 acceptance1586 forbearance1599 brooking1624 digestion1653 tolerance1765 c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxx. 6 (MED) Lord, þou art my paciencie [L. patientia], and þou art, Lord, myn hope fram myn ȝouþe. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 3569 His paciencie And meknesse hath qwenchid al þis offence. a1494 J. Russell in Liber Pontificalis C. Bainbridge (1875) App. 1. 244 Now dowghters yn Criste..wyll take upon yow..the payn of poverte, the burden of relygyon, want, prayer, fastyng, abstynency, temperancy, contemplatyon, study, pacyency, tollerancy, and suffrance. 1576 G. Whetstone Rocke of Regard 58 Only to proroge her life (I thinke)..she fel apraying, for when she setled her self to most patiencie, she would soudenly exclame of Frizaldos tirannie. 1621 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 1st Bk. ii. 44 She with much impatient patiency, awayts the houre of eight. 1661 Princess Cloria iii. 319 The old Father..perswaded him to those entire patiencies, that might place him securely amongst the Gods. 1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd vi. v. 273 The tears that lie about this plightful scene..Might drive Compassion past her patiency. 2. The quality of being acted on, passivity. Chiefly in contrast with agency. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance > quality of being endurable or tolerable comportableness1642 supportableness1649 patiency1655 tolerablenessa1678 bearableness1727 supportability1800 livableness1860 bearability1881 1655 T. White Grounds Obed. & Govt. 36 He who maketh a promise to another, so it be a perfect one,..puts himselfe and his promissary into a rank of agency and patiency. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 217 Which..has the truest Notion of Agency in it, without any Mixture of Patiency; because the Body moved cannot re-act upon it. a1832 J. Bentham Fragm. Ontol. in Wks. (1843) VIII. 207/1 No one exhibits more of agency, no one more of patiency, than any other. 1949 D. G. James Life of Reason iii. 119 Perception is certainly not a mechanical patiency of the mind. 1976 Ethics 87 91 The range of that rule's application with respect to agency and patiency. 1991 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 51 780 Anderson pioneers in isolating agency and patiency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1350 |
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