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
These are the only principles of patience and longanimity.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Objection 1: It seems that patience is the same as longanimity.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
I answer that, Just as by magnanimity a man has a mind to tend to great things, so by longanimity a man has a mind to tend to something a long way off.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
