单词 | over-patient |
释义 | > as lemmasover-patient over-patient adj. Brit. , U.S. ΚΠ a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse v. i. 88 in Poems (1638) And when I am not over patient, To put up such grosse wrongs as call me coward. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 137 I like not much bandying of words, being not overpatient in my nature. 1987 A. Theroux Adultery 154 It was the sort of overpatient condescension one usually finds administered in a nurselike way. < as lemmas |
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