单词 | longanimity |
释义 | longanimityn. 1. Patience, forbearance, esp. under provocation; long-sufferance. Formerly also: †foresight, long-sightedness; confidence in the future (obsolete).In early use chiefly in religious contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > long-suffering sufferancea1300 sufferinga1340 longanimityc1400 long-sufferancec1405 long-suffering1496 patiencec1500 endurance1600 enduring1603 endurementa1716 c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: 2 Tim. (Selwyn) (1904) iii. 10 Þou hast folewed my techynge, myn ordeynynge, & my purpos, feiþ, longanymyte [a1450 Corpus Cambr. adds þat is longabydynge; L. longanimitatem]. c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 361 (MED) With Noe ye haue expert prudence..And with Iacob longanymyte. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 14 (MED) Thou shalt ouercome hem [sc. temptacions] better litel & litel by pacience & longanimyte. 1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 131v His longanimity and long taryeng for our amendement. 1652 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples (new ed.) ii. 198 The staidnesse, longanimity and constancy of the Spaniard. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) In Divinity it is thus defined; Longanimity is an untired confidence of mind in expecting the good things of the life to come. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 74 The Longanimity of God would no longer endure such vivacious abominations. 1724 W. Warburton Misc. Transl. 26 Constancy is a Word too weak to express so extraordinary a Behaviour, 'twas Patience, 'twas Longanimity. 1781 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 30 Jan. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 381 He adopted those vigorous measures which his longanimity so long withheld him from putting into execution. 1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage IV. xxxviii. 166 The same penetration, the same longanimity, which enabled him to govern the affairs of a great nation, gave him..a prévoyance for his own happiness. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xi. 217 In true generosity of soul, he [sc. Essex] was as little a match for Ralegh as in longanimity. 1890 Spectator 11 Jan. His longanimity under the foolishness of the young woman is really marvellous. 1955 R. C. Hutchinson Stepmother xviii. 111 He stared at the parquet with the tired longanimity of a passenger used to missing trains. 2005 P. Donahue Madison House 99 Throughout the entire voyage Laurette had maintained a longanimity that Maddie could not help but admire. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] lengtha1240 date?1316 durationc1384 hautesse1399 quantity?a1425 periodc1475 tracta1513 allowance1526 continuance1530 wideness1535 continue1556 protense1590 countenance1592 stay1595 standing1600 dimension1605 longanimity1607 longinquity1607 insisture1609 existence1615 unprivationa1628 continuity1646 protension1654 measure1658 course1665 contention1666 propagation1741 protensity1886 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity prolixityc1395 tediouste?a1412 diffusiona1413 diffuseness1474 tediousness?a1475 largeness1547 longness1587 prolixness?1590 length1597 longanimity1607 tediositya1625 wire-drawing1640 longinquity1641 long-windedness1648 diffusivenessa1719 sprawling1822 longsomeness1834 ramblingness1835 lengthsomeness1849 bagginess1860 lengthiness1863 governmentese1907 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 718 The bones of the head; some of which are so affected by longanimity [1658 longinquity] of time that you may take a threefold substance in them. c1613 ( in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 12 (MED) Desiring him dayly for your honor, prosperity, ioy, and longanimity. ΚΠ 1854 J. R. Lowell in Putnam's Monthly May 477/2 He is expected to ask a blessing and return thanks at the dinner, a function which he performs with centenarian longanimity, as if he reckoned the ordinary life of man to be five score years. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. 4 A catalogue..emulous in longanimity of Homer's list of ships. 1890 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 11 Feb. 4/3 We do not desiderate a controversy, which..becomes emulous in longanimity of the discussion of the Bennett law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400 |
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