单词 | patience perforce |
释义 | > as lemmaspatience perforce patience perforce n. patience exercised when there is no alternative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > upon compulsion patience perforce1569 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 9 Perfors tak paciens And dre thy destany.] 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 746 She being..without comfort of defenders, by pacience perforce, was compelled to suffer and susteyne. 1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 334 Content thy selfe with patience perforce. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. F4 Heres patience perforce, He needs must trot a foot that tyres his horsse. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 130 Patience perforce is a medicine for a mad dog. 1706 T. D'Urfey Wonders in Sun i. ii. 27 Patience perforce, sweet Angel. < as lemmas |
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