CONSTANCY Copy link • CONSTANCYperseverance, perseverantia (that constancy which is not deterred by difficulties): constantia (consistent conduct): assiduitas (unremitting perseverance): pertinacia (pertinacious adherance to anything, e.g., an opinion, design): pervicacia (firmness in endeavouring to attain one’s end): obstinatio: obstinatior voluntas: obstinatus animus (obstinate persistence in; e.g., a resolution, decision): stabilitas (in friendship): animi firmitas (firmness of mind, or constancy of sentiment): of opinion, perpetua in sententia sua permansio. obstinatio sententiae: in faith, obstinatio fidei: anybody does not possess constancy in bearing adversities, minime resistens ad calamitates perferendas mens alicujus est: with constancy, perseveranter: obstinato animo: constanter. [Vid: also, CONSTANTLY]. Patience, patientia (the will to endure sufferings and adversity without flinching; ☞ Cic., De Invent., 2, 54, 163): tolerantia (the energy and perseverance displayed in suffering, with collateral notion of the feeling, but endurance of the misery; generally with genitive; e.g., tolerantia doloris): aequus animus, aequitas animi (equanimity, calmness): to endure sufferings with constancy, pati ac ferre aliquid: perpeti, perferre aliquid (Vid: Liv., 28, 34: Hor., Ep., 1, 15, 17). Continuance, perpetuitas (uninterrupted duration): perennitas: diuturnitas (long duration): stabilitas (immutability). Faithfulness, fidelitas (erga amicum, erga patriam): fides: fidus amor (constancy in love, but fidelitas erga conjugem, if conjugal fidelity is meant).