حِلْمٌ
Root: حلم
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حِلْمٌ
[Forbearance; clemency;] the quality of forgiving and concealing [offences]: or moderation; gentleness; deliberateness; a leisurely manner of proceding, or of deportment, &c.; patience, as meaning contr. of hastiness: gravity; staidness; sedateness; calmness: syn. أَنَاةٌ: or these qualities with power or ability [to exercise the contrary qualities]; expl. by أَنَاةٌ
and
سُكُونٌ
with
قُدْرَةٌ
and
قُوَّةٌ: or the management of one's soul and temper on the occasion of excitement of anger: or tranquillity on the occasion of emotion of anger: or delay in requiting the wrongdoer: it is described by the term ثِقَلٌ, or gravity; like as its contr. [سَفَهٌ] is described by the terms خِقَّةٌ and عَجَلٌ, or levity, or lightness, and hastiness: (TA in art. رجح:) also
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