Patient vs Forebear - What's the difference?
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Content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
* Sir Isaac Newton
(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
* Bishop Fell
A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
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(linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
* Gov. of Tongue
An ancestor.
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As nouns the difference between patient and forebear
is that patient is patient, someone who receives therapeutic treatment while forebear is an ancestor.As a verb forebear is
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English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Be patient : your friends will arrive in a few hours.
- patient endeavour
- Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
- patient of severest toil and hardship
Synonyms
* composedAntonyms
* impatient * antsyDerived terms
* patientlyNoun
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- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient .
Antonyms
* agentDerived terms
* inpatient * outpatient * patient role * patient of somethingSee also
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold [...]
- One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.
- Beginning with the bald declaration “I think I was cold in the womb,” the speaker in “The Forbears'” then decides that his brother (who died soon after birth) must also have been cold in the womb, like his grandfather John and the ' forbears who antedated John.
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