unpatient

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ patient.

Adjective

unpatient (comparative more unpatient, superlative most unpatient)

1. (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

References

• “unpatient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.