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omnipatient
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English
Etymology
Adjective
omnipatient (comparative more omnipatient, superlative most omnipatient)
- Infinitely or extremely patient; capable of enduring everything, or a lot.
- 1833-34 Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
- Such perhaps was the aim of Nature, who does nothing without aim, in furnishing her favorite, Man, with this his so omnipotent or rather omnipatient Talent of being Gulled.
- 1833-34 Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
References
- “omnipatient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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