Obs. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Patience, submissiveness, meekness.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xvi. 334 (MS. J.). Patientia þæt is ʓeðyld and þolmodnys ʓecwæden.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 276. Wreððes salue [is] þolemodnesse.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 5831. Moche he louede þolmodnesse.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxvi. (Baptista), 433. Of tholmudnes als sic wes he Þat he with-stud in na degre Agane þame þat … til hyme mysded.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 285. The prince suld be … of gude tholemudenes, to suetely here the caus.
