omnipatient

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

omni- +‎ patient

Adjective[edit]

omnipatient (comparative more omnipatient, superlative most omnipatient)

  1. Infinitely patient; capable of enduring all things.
    • 1833-34 Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
      Such perhaps was the aim of Nature, who does nothing without aim, in furnishing her favorite, Man, with this his so omnipotent or rather omnipatient Talent of being Gulled.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for omnipatient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)