longanimity
Example Sentences
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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
Of all kinds of patience there is none more fitting to tedious waiting than longanimity.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre
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
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
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