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

Of all kinds of patience there is none more fitting to tedious waiting than longanimity.

From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre

What fo' yo' want t' distress mah longanimity fo'?

From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy

Therefore in like manner longanimity which takes count of time, in so far as a person waits for a long time, is not distinct from patience.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint