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
Hence longanimity has more in common with magnanimity than with patience.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Therefore in like manner longanimity which takes count of time, in so far as a person waits for a long time, is not distinct from patience.
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
