longanimity
Example Sentences
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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
The other Bull was to the Archpriest and his associates, commending their patience and longanimity, and willing them to counsel all sorts of lay people to be forward in execution of the Pope's command.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
The mercies of God are great, and His patient expectance of us, granting time and occasions and motives to repent, is most gracious and full of longanimity.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
What fo' yo' want t' distress mah longanimity fo'?
From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Roy Rockwood
