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PATIENTLY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With patience; in a patient manner

Example:

he patiently played with the child

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

impatiently (with impatience; in an impatient manner)

Pertainym:

patient (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We waited patiently as we saw the workman come out and bring in his bag.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was well aware that nothing but business of importance would have brought him to me at such an hour, so I waited patiently until he should come round to it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She inspected it with painstaking care, while One Eye, who had returned, stood in the entrance and patiently watched her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In a recently published study, researchers from Washington State University say bacteria, found in the hyper-arid soil of Chile's Atacama Desert, can live dormant for decades, patiently waiting for very rare rainfalls.

(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)

She could do little more than listen patiently, soften every grievance, and excuse each to the other; give them all hints of the forbearance necessary between such near neighbours, and make those hints broadest which were meant for her sister's benefit.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Miss Bertram approved the decision, for the less he had to learn the better; and though she could not sympathise in his wish that the Count and Agatha might be to act together, nor wait very patiently while he was slowly turning over the leaves with the hope of still discovering such a scene, she very kindly took his part in hand, and curtailed every speech that admitted being shortened; besides pointing out the necessity of his being very much dressed, and chusing his colours.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But he had caught hints of such music from the books, and he accepted her playing largely on faith, patiently waiting, at first, for the lifting measures of pronounced and simple rhythm, puzzled because those measures were not long continued.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I worked early and late, patiently and hard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Scarecrow, who was never tired, stood up in another corner and waited patiently until morning came.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)