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
These are the only principles of patience and longanimity.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Even Zeus is displaying a marvellous longanimity in his adverse state, and Pallas is positively frivolous.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
You, who know what longanimity may be and how hard a thing to come at, may admire him for this.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
