livelong

as inlifelong

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adj lasting

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Word Origin & History

also live-long, c.1400, lefe longe (day), from leve, lief "dear" (see lief), used here as an emotional intensive + long (adj). From late 16c. conformed in spelling to live (v.) as lief grew strange. German has cognate die liebe lange Nacht, literally "the dear long night."

Example Sentences for livelong

I wonder what you do the livelong day, for I know you and idleness are not acquaintances.

No one had bought any of them the livelong day—no one had given her a single penny.

All the livelong night there is jubilee among the Indians above and below.

A cruel doubt had been knocking at her door the livelong day.

In vain she waited the livelong night; no Dermot came back to her.

I heard the animals howling away the livelong night in the distance.

They were singing, dancing, and making the lti all the livelong day.

And oh, what a vale of tears is that village of Langhurst the livelong night!

She paced the room with it the livelong night, hushing it and soothing it.

That face haunted him in his dreams throughout the livelong night.

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