† unpatiencen.
Obsolete.
Lack of patience; impatience.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > [noun]
untholemoodnessc1000
impatiencec1230
rese?a1300
unpatiencea1382
untholemooda1400
unpatiency1535
unpatientness1548
impatientness1550
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Judith viii. 24 Þei..þat temptaciouns resseyueden not with þe drede of god & broȝten forþ þer vnpacience [L. impatientiam] & þe reprof of þer grucching aȝen þe lord: ben exilid.
c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 104 Mekenes is þat a man pacientliche holde him paid whateuere God sende him..we ȝoke us wiþ þe ȝok of loue..þat we þruste not wiþ unpacience.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 94 Vnpacyens is full of malyce.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccclxiv/2 Neuertheles was neuer sene in her signe of vnpacyence, but alwey swete wordes.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 178 The punycions of the childern of Israel that fell vpon them..for their vnpacience and murmours that thei had ageinst their hedis and rewlars.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Gal. i. f. iiiv Lest any thynke that these my wordes are spoken either of hastynes, or of vnpacience.
1583 A. Marten tr. P. M. Vermigli Common Places ii. iv. 332/1 We must beware of this heinous crime, that we through vnpatience doo not tempt God.
1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. ix. 43 By reason of the Childs unpatience I could not make the Medicine stay.
1660 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist 132 Hast and unpatience is of the devil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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