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paciently

paciently is the obsolete form of patiently.

Meaning of patiently

Adverb

patiently (comparative more patiently, superlative most patiently)

  1. In a patient manner.
    • "I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of paciently

comparativemore paciently
superlativemost paciently

Origin of paciently

From pacient + -ly.

Questions about paciently

What is paciently the obsolete form of?
Paciently is the obsolete form of patiently.

Words near paciently in the dictionary

  1. paci-gags
  2. pacidamycin
  3. pacidamycins
  4. pacie
  5. pacient
  6. paciently
  7. pacier
  8. pacies
  9. paciest
  10. pacifastin
  11. pacifastins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paciently (page history and authors); patiently (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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