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English
Etymology
un- + patient
Adjective
unpatient (comparative more unpatient, superlative most unpatient)
- (obsolete or nonstandard) impatient
c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, , volume III (in Middle English), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Proverbs XIX:19, page 31, column 2:Forsothe he that is vnpacient, schal suffre harm; and whanne he hath rauyshid, he schal leie to anothir thing.- Forsooth he that is unpatient, shall suffer harm; and when he hath ravished, he shall lay to another thing.
1607, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Woman Hater:Gond. That I hate truely, thou hadst better bin a devill.
Orian. Why my unpatient Lord?
Gond. Devils were once good, there they excell'd you wom[e]n.
1662, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Psalms”, in The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, , London: John Bill, and Christopher Barker, , →OCLC, column 1:The Lord is King, be the people never so unpatient: he sitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet
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