patiently, adv.
(ˈpeɪʃəntlɪ)
[f. patient a. + -ly2.]
In a patient manner; with patience. (See the adj.)
| c 1320 Cast. Love 1157 He suffred hit alle pacyently. c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 38 How oure Lorde sufferde vs pacyently in oure syne and tuke na vengeance of vs. 1382 Wyclif Acts xxvi. 3 For which thing, I biseche, heere me paciently. 1481 Caxton Reynard xi. (Arb.) 25, I can not bettre it, I shal take it paciently. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. (1551) 74 The other besought his lord.., saying; deale paciently with me. 1611 Shakes. Cymb. iii. v. 118 Since patiently and constantly thou hast stucke to the bare Fortune of that Begger Posthumus. 1682 Norris Hierocles, Gold. Verses 20 Bear patiently what Ill by Heaven is sent. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. xlii. (1869) II. 580 He patiently endured the hardships of a savage life. 1874 Green Short Hist. iii. §7. 149 He listens patiently to the advice of his friends. |
b. Hyphened to adj. (before its n.).
| 1892 Pater Wks. (1901) VIII. 209 Wave upon wave, of patiently-wrought stone. 1900 Daily News 21 May 3/3 The steps of the patiently-pursued policy. |