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单词 patiency
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patiencyn.

Brit. /ˈpeɪʃnsi/, U.S. /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nsi/
Forms: Middle English pacyency, Middle English–1500s paciencie, 1500s paciency, 1500s patiencie, 1500s–1600s 1800s– patiency.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: Latin patientia.
Etymology: < classical Latin patientia patience n.1 (compare -ency suffix), perhaps after Anglo-Norman paciencie. In sense 2 after agency n.
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).
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