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  • 91patient — [pā′shənt] adj. [ME pacient < OFr < L patiens, patient, prp. of pati: see PASSION] 1. bearing or enduring pain, trouble, etc. without complaining or losing self control 2. refusing to be provoked or angered, as by an insult; forbearing;… …

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  • 92take it on the chin — {v. phr.}, {informal} 1. To be badly beaten or hurt. * /Our football team really took it on the chin today. They are all bumps and bruises./ * /Mother and I took it on the chin in the card game./ 2. To accept without complaint something bad that… …

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  • 93take it on the chin — {v. phr.}, {informal} 1. To be badly beaten or hurt. * /Our football team really took it on the chin today. They are all bumps and bruises./ * /Mother and I took it on the chin in the card game./ 2. To accept without complaint something bad that… …

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  • 94Coldly — Cold ly, adv. In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly. [1913 Webster] Withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 95Coolly — Cool ly, adv. In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 96Expire — Ex*pire , v. i. 1. To emit the breath. [1913 Webster] 2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony. [1913 Webster] 3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become… …

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  • 97Imperturbably — Im per*turb a*bly, adv. In an imperturbable manner; calmly. C. Bront[ e]. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 98Patience — Pa tience (p[=a] shens), n. [F. patience, fr. L. patientia. See {Patient}.] 1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression,… …

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  • 99Patient — Pa tient (p[=a] shent), a. [F., fr. L. patiens, entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. {Pathos}, {Passion}.] 1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. [1913 Webster] Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell. [1913 …

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  • 100Quietly — Qui et*ly, adv. 1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. [1913 Webster] 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. [1913 Webster] 3.… …

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