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

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 Gosse, Edmund

When George Herbert tells us that if the sermon be dull, 'God takes a text and preacheth patience,' the prolongation of the word seems to convey some hint at the longanimity of the virtue.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

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