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impatience

[im-pey-shuhns] / ɪmˈpeɪ ʃəns /


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And comradeship must welcome not regret, nurture not stifle, the fine impatiences of youth, the eager, oft unconsidered, superb, at best resistless, idealisms of youth.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen

Friedrich's activities, and suppressed and insuppressible impatiences in this interval, are also conceivable, though not on record for us.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

The stifled reproaches, the secret impatiences, the ennuis, the hidden anguish of those last weeks at Marinata were gone.

From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Still, Ada, for a while you will try to put up with my little impatiences and idiosyncrasies.

From Long Odds by Bindloss, Harold




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