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

You, who know what longanimity may be and how hard a thing to come at, may admire him for this.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

But impatience is contrary to longanimity, whereby one awaits a delay: for one is said to be impatient of delay, as of other evils.

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