pos>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;
I then, . . .
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answered neglectingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
With huge impatience he inly swelt
More for great sorrow that he could not pass,
Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]