a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse v. i. 88 in (1638) And when I am not over patient, To put up such grosse wrongs as call me coward.
1881 ‘M. Twain’ 137 I like not much bandying of words, being not overpatient in my nature.
1987 A. Theroux 154 It was the sort of overpatient condescension one usually finds administered in a nurselike way.