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
A kind of scorn, a kind of pity, and a kind of patient longanimity looked from them.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
For being resolved never to yield or forsake their faith, they had not patience and longanimity to expect the Providence of God, “qui attingit a fine usque ad finem fortiter et disponit omnia suaviter.”
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
These are the only principles of patience and longanimity.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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