Dictionary

unpatient en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + patient.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, obsolete) impatient
   • 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. 1607, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Woman Hater:
   • Forsothe he that is vnpacient, schal suffre harm; and whanne he hath rauyshid, he schal leie to anothir thing. 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:
   • The Lord is King, be the people never so unpatient: he sitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet 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:

Forms

Deriveds

unpatientness · unpatiently