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Longanimity

//lɒŋɡəˈnɪmɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Patience or tolerance in the face of adversity; forbearance, long-suffering. archaic, uncountable

    "It had overcome the patience of Job, as it did the meekness of Moses, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity, and lasting sufferance of God [...]."

  2. 2
    good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin longanimitās, from longanimus, translating Ancient Greek μακροθυμία (makrothumía).

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