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impatience
(encz) | impatience,netrpělivost |
Impatience
(gcide) | Impatience \Im*pa"tience\n. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr.
L. impatientia.]
The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain,
suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for
something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit;
fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an
invalid.
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I then, . . .
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answered neglectingly. --Shak.
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With huge impatience he inly swelt
More for great sorrow that he could not pass,
Than for the burning torment which he felt. --Spenser.
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impatience
(wn) | impatience
n 1: a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes
delay [syn: restlessness, impatience]
2: a restless desire for change and excitement
3: a dislike of anything that causes delay [ant: forbearance,
longanimity, patience] |
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with impatience
(encz) | with impatience, adv: |
Impatience
(gcide) | Impatience \Im*pa"tience\n. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr.
L. impatientia.]
The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain,
suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for
something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit;
fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an
invalid.
[1913 Webster]
I then, . . .
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answered neglectingly. --Shak.
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With huge impatience he inly swelt
More for great sorrow that he could not pass,
Than for the burning torment which he felt. --Spenser.
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