longanimity

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The language is heavily latinate: durable usages include "adulterate", "verity" and "prescience", while "potestates", "longanimity" and "conculcation" failed to stick.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2011

The holes in his bed linens finally exhausted even Lady Churchill's longanimity, and she gave him a smart dressing down.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wherefore as magnanimity regards hope, which tends to good, rather than daring, fear, or sorrow, which have evil as their object, so also does longanimity.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

A kind of scorn, a kind of pity, and a kind of patient longanimity looked from them.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

Of all kinds of patience there is none more fitting to tedious waiting than longanimity.

From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre