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Definition of Longanimous
1. Adjective. Showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment. "Was longanimous in the face of suffering"
Definition of Longanimous
1. Adjective. Long-suffering; patient; showing self-control and restraint. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Longanimous
Literary usage of Longanimous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"The genial and versatile figure that he portrays full length before us he conceives
as no mere longanimous minor poet but as a typical, if somewhat superior ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1915)
"... what reprisals would not that vengeful and longanimous people take when once
the troops were removed? A state of embittered blood-feud would succeed the ..."
3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Crawford Howell Toy (1899)
"the translation cool (which is generally adopted by recent expositors) seems
satisfactory ; Grk. longanimous ; Targ. humble.— Wise, lit. a man of wisdom (or ..."
4. American Prose: Selections by George Rice Carpenter (1898)
"... inventive in all but the beautiful, full of shifts, not yet capable of comfort,
armed at all points against the old enemy Hunger, longanimous, ..."
5. The Way of Saint James by Georgiana Goddard King (1920)
"and bore My Cid Ruy Diaz a grudge thereafter, afraid but longanimous. He was, it
is well to recall, the strong knight and scrupulous for his royal promise, ..."
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