adv. Obs. [UN-1 11, 5 b.] Impatiently.

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c. 1425.  Orolog. Sapient., i., in Anglia, X. 335/23. Þat þou take not vnpacientlye þat diuerse graciose visitacione.

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1491.  Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. cxi. 136/1. The sayd Sirryens … bare full unpacyently that they were brought in bondage.

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1548.  Cranmer, Catech., 93. When such yong babes do not lye softly … they crie vnpatientlye.

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1576.  Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 186. It was manifest … that their minds were exceedingly molested, and tooke their repulse very unpatiently.

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1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XIX. iv. 759. Cato … would not haue done it but that he tooke Cæsar’s victory so vnpatiently.

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