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

A kind of scorn, a kind of pity, and a kind of patient longanimity looked from them.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

For being resolved never to yield or forsake their faith, they had not patience and longanimity to expect the Providence of God, “qui attingit a fine usque ad finem fortiter et disponit omnia suaviter.”

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John