单词 | longanimity |
释义 | longanimity (once / 193760 pages) n Your longanimity is what keeps you calm and patient, even when you're running late on a crowded bus that's stuck in rush hour traffic. Use the noun longanimity when you want an uncommon way to say "cool, calm, and collected." If you stay relaxed and smiling while you're waiting to get a driver's license or on hold with the cable company, you've got an admirable amount of longanimity. The Latin root is longanimitas, which means "long-suffering or patient" and comes from longus, "long," and animus, "spirit or mind." WORD FAMILYlonganimous: longanimity USAGE EXAMPLESThe language is heavily latinate: durable usages include "adulterate", "verity" and "prescience", while "potestates", "longanimity" and "conculcation" failed to stick. The Guardian(Feb 19, 2011) Even Zeus is displaying a marvellous longanimity in his adverse state, and Pallas is positively frivolous. Gosse, Edmund, Hypolympia—Or, The Gods in the Isla...(2010) These are the only principles of patience and longanimity. Binning, Hugh, The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning(2010) n good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence Syn|Ant|Hyper forbearance, patience impatience a dislike of anything that causes delay good nature a cheerful, obliging disposition |
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