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

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

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

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 Gerard, John

Length is the tree's extent from the beam to the ground; and there it is planted—that is, it stands and abides—which is the note of longanimity.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint