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
These are the only principles of patience and longanimity.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
A kind of scorn, a kind of pity, and a kind of patient longanimity looked from them.
From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry
Even Zeus is displaying a marvellous longanimity in his adverse state, and Pallas is positively frivolous.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund
