LIVELONG

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play Swift.

2.
a.

Lasting; durable. [Obs.] Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton.


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