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Stoical, Stoic adj.

Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint.

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Etymology of 'Stoical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... parade a stoical indifference to the pecuniary interests at stake to-day; they are such as must seriously affect my fortunes for years, possibly for life. A cause involving so large a sum of money, so fine a landed estate, honourably acquired by the late proprietor, and generously ...

— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... front of his weed-and-pole shack waiting with that stoical anxiety which never betrays itself by hurry or nervousness. If the man of money came and saw fit to lend, "vellee well—if not, ...

— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby

... murmuring about forests of Uruguay blanketed with the wax petals of tropical roses, nightingales, sea beaches, mermaids, and women drowned at sea, as he suffered himself to be moved on by William, upon whose face the look of stoical patience grew ...

— Monday or Tuesday • Virginia Woolf

... and the nervous horse began kicking frantically. When Canute felt the blood trickling down in his eyes from a scalp wound in his head, he roused himself from his kingly indifference, and with the quiet stoical courage of a drunken man leaned forward and wound his arms about the horse's hind legs and held them against his breast with crushing embrace. All through the darkness and cold of the night he lay there, ...

— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather

... a necessary end,/Will come, when it will come] This is a sentence derived from the Stoical doctrine of predestination, and is therefore improper in the ...

— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

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