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Longanimity

noun
1.
Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.  Synonyms: forbearance, patience.






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"Longanimity" Quotes from Famous Books



... heah, yo' unregenerated specimen ob a ungrateful bipedical ornithology! What fo' yo' want t' distress mah longanimity fo'? Come back heah!" ...
— Through Space to Mars • Roy Rockwood

... ill-will in you to me, and had I hearkened to you, my regret had been prolonged and I had died miserably of grief." "O my father," quoth the prince, "but for the fairness of thy thought and thy judgment and thy longanimity and deliberation in affairs, there had not bedded thee this great joyance. Hadst thou slain me in haste, repentance would have been sore on thee and long grief, and on this wise doth ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne



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