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longminded en · ADJ

Etymology

From long + minded. Compare Old English langmōd (“patient, long-suffering”, literally “long-mood”).

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, rare) Patient; longanimous.
   • They are no more longminded than white people. They know there's not going to be a Negro sheriff. And therefore when they vote, they're going to vote for the less dangerous sheriff, who has to be a Democrat. 1966, Staughton Lynd, Nonviolence in America:

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longmindedness