a. and sb. Obs. Forms: 1–4 þolemod, þolmod, (1 þolo-), 2–4 þolemode, 4 tholemod, tholmod, -moud, -mud, (-mound), 4–5 tholemode, tholmode; Sc. 5 tholemude, 6 thoilmude, -muide, (8 tholomoody). [OE. þolemód, f. þole- (see prec.) + mód, MOOD sb.1 Cf. ON. þolin-móðr, Da. taal-modig.]

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  A.  adj. Patient, submissive, meek.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Hom. (Assmann), 127 (Gr.). Heo wæs þolemod and ʓestæðþiʓ on hire ʓebæran.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xvii. 56. And beo ʓesibsum, ʓeðyldiʓ and ðolmod.

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a. 1050.  Liber Scintill., ii. 8. Þolomod, patiens.

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a. 1100.  O. E. Glosses (Napier), I. 1319. Longanimem, þolemod.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 105. Þet þe mon beo iþuldi and þolemod.

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a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 177. Ha wes Þuldi & þolemod.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 10187 (Cott.). Was neuer … nan tholmoder in chastite.

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c. 1450.  Mirour Saluacioun, 4607. In alle aduersitees yt I so tholemode ay be.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, V. vii. 48. In vane that name thow beris,… Geif thow, sa thoilmuide, sufferis leid away Sa greit a price.

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1710.  Ruddiman, Gloss. to Douglas’ Æneis, Thoilmude, Scot. Bor. say tholemoody, i. e., patient.

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  B.  sb. = THOLEMODENESS. rare.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xvi. 334 (MS. D.). Se feorðe mihte is patientia, þæt is ðolmod ʓecweden.

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c. 1175.  Paternoster, 266 in Lamb. Hom., 69. Edmodnesse and þolemod þet þuncheð gode swiðe god.

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