1380. Lay Folks Catech. (Lamb. MS.), 740. Be grucchyngge and vnpaciens and blasfemynge of god.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 94. Þe sexte fote depe of wose in wretthe is vnpacyence. Ibid. Vnpacyens is full of malyce.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 361 b/2. Neuertheles was neuer sene in her signe of unpacyence but alwey swete wordes.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Gal. i. 3 b. Lest any thynke that these my wordes are spoken either of hastynes or of vnpacience.
1643. J. Steer, trans. Exp. Chyrurg., ix. 43. By reason of the Childs unpatience I could not make the Medicine stay.
