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

Off-handed as she pretended to be, none dealt more in the impromptu fait à loisir; and, mentally short-sighted as she affected to be, none had more longanimity for their own interest.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Edgeworth, Maria

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