Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Long-suffering; patient; enduring.
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- adjective Long-suffering;
patient ; showingself-control andrestraint .
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- adjective showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment
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Examples
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Yet again, he has a dog's intrepidity, knows no fear, is single-purposed, not to be called off, longanimous.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Charity “is kind” and “suffereth long,” (μακροθυμηω), it is longanimous or magnanimous and there is indeed no great, truly great, mind but is patient and long suffering.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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At another point, you are asked to reduce big words to little maxims: "Aberration is the hallmark of homo sapiens while longanimous placability and condonation are the indicia of a supramundane omniscience" turns into ... but there!
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