Patience
See also: patience
English edit
Etymology edit
From patience, a virtue name first used by Puritans in the sixteenth century.
Proper noun edit
Patience
- A female given name from English.
- 1929, Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoaks of Jalna, Dundurn Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 229:
- Meg had named it Patience. "But why?" he had exclaimed, not liking the name at all. "Patience is my favourite virtue," she had replied, "and we can call her Patty for short."