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

The mercies of God are great, and His patient expectance of us, granting time and occasions and motives to repent, is most gracious and full of longanimity.

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

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

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