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longanimity

noun as in forbearance

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Example Sentences

The other Bull was to the Archpriest and his associates, commending their patience and longanimity, and willing them to counsel all sorts of lay people to be forward in execution of the Pope's command.

Even Zeus is displaying a marvellous longanimity in his adverse state, and Pallas is positively frivolous.

These are the only principles of patience and longanimity.

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.

Objection 1: It seems that patience is the same as longanimity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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