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

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

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