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
O my father, but for the fairness of thy thought and thy perspicacity and thy longanimity and deliberation in affairs, there had not betided thee this great joy.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Maria Edgeworth
Of all kinds of patience there is none more fitting to tedious waiting than longanimity.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
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