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
But impatience is contrary to longanimity, whereby one awaits a delay: for one is said to be impatient of delay, as of other evils.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
What fo' yo' want t' distress mah longanimity fo'?
From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy
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.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John
