longanimity

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 31, 2020 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>longanimity</strong> &#149; \long-guh-NIM-uh-tee\&nbsp; &#149; <em>noun</em><br /> <p><strong>:</strong> a disposition to bear injuries patiently <strong>:</strong> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forbearance">forbearance</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>The fans continue to show their <em>longanimity</em> by coming back year after year to cheer on the perpetually losing team.</p> <p>"Most of the conspirators were gentlemen in their early thirties and the majority had wild pasts. They were frustrated men of action, 'swordsmen' the priests called them, and 'they had not the patience and <em>longanimity</em> to expect the Providence of God.'" — <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/God_s_Traitors/-WvrAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%22Most+of+the+conspirators+were+gentlemen+in+their+early+thirties+and+the+majority+had+wild+pasts&amp;pg=PA283&amp;printsec=frontcover">Jessie Childs, <em>God's Traitors: Terror &amp; Faith in Elizabethan England</em>, 2014</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Longanimity</em> is a word with a long history. It came to English in the 15th century from the Late Latin adjective <em>longanimis</em>, meaning "patient" or "long-suffering." <em>Longanimis</em>, in turn, derives from the Latin combination of <em>longus</em> ("long") and <em>animus</em> ("soul"). <em>Longus</em> is related to English's <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long">long</a></em> and is itself an ancestor to several other English words, including <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longevity">longevity</a></em> ("long life"), <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elongate">elongate</a></em> ("to make longer"), and <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio