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

Objection 1: It seems that patience is the same as longanimity.

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

Wherefore as magnanimity regards hope, which tends to good, rather than daring, fear, or sorrow, which have evil as their object, so also does longanimity.

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

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