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IMPATIENCES
Noun
impatiences
plural of impatience
Anagrams
• episemantic
Source: Wiktionary
IMPATIENCE
Im*pa"tience n. Etym: [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.]
Definition: The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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