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.
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Therefore 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
Therefore 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
What fo' yo' want t' distress mah longanimity fo'?
From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy