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

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 Gerard, John

But impatience is contrary to longanimity, whereby one awaits a delay: for one is said to be impatient of delay, as of other evils.

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

What fo' yo' want t' distress mah longanimity fo'?

From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy