Difference between impatience and please
Definitions
noun
- a dislike of anything that causes delay
- a restless desire for change and excitement
- a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
Examples
The watch on deck soon came to the conclusion that "sailoring" was not particularly funny at night, for there was a good deal of gaping, and not a little impatience for the eight bells that would relieve them for
He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience.
A note of impatience had entered his voice.
Definitions
verb
- give satisfaction
- give pleasure to or be pleasing to
- be the will of or have the will (to)
adverb
- used in polite request
Examples
I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
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But Arthur's do-gooder streak didn't particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his own party's nomination for re-election.
