equanimity

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This equanimity is the more surprising in view of the fact that the position of Bulgaria is well-nigh desperate.

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  1. noun The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure.

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  • The suspense and anxiety I had undergone during the preceding day had indisposed me for sustaining any fresh annoyance with equanimity, and now, in confirmation of my worst fears, that hateful sentence in old Peter's note, warning me of treachery in the quarter where I was most deeply interested, rose up before me like some messenger of evil, torturing me to the verge of distraction with vague doubts and suspicions--fiends which the bright spirits of Love and Faith were powerless to banish. —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
  • The boy in question was a cunning dunce, who had already discovered Louis' failing, and having partaken of the assistance Louis supplied as liberally as allowed, had come more especially under the ken of the seniors, and Hamilton had been administering a reproof to Louis for helping Casson before getting his own lessons ready Ferrers had nearly reached the upper end of the table before any one was aware of his vicinity, when Trevannion, looking up from his writing to dip his pen anew in the ink, caught sight of him, recognizing him so suddenly that even his equanimity was almost surprised into a start. —  Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
  • Fortunately for my equanimity, I was not present when he told his own tale at New Creek; it must have been a grand romance of history Yet my poor Dolley made a bad night's work of it after all. —  Border and Bastille
  • By equanimity, absence of desires, purity, and goodness, which are the necessary results of clear knowledge, he is to show that he has already risen above the transient through gazing on the imperishable and through the enjoyment of knowledge, imperfect though the latter still be. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
  • Even Bellfield could not bear it with equanimity, and feeling unable to eat the ham under such circumstances, made his breakfast with a couple of fresh eggs. —  Can You Forgive Her?
 

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  1. Latin aequanimitās, from aequanimus, even-tempered, impartial : aequus, even + animus, mind; see anə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin æquanimita(t-)s, calmness, patience, even-mindedness, from æquanimis, even-minded: see equanimous.
 

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