Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Long-lived.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Long-loved; longevous.

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  • adjective long-lived; longevous

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Examples

  • The statement may (with St. Peter keeping the gate) have been challenged in paradise, but in literature at all events the unhonored life of Jérome Coignard has clothed him with glory of tolerably longeval looking texture.

    The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

  • Methusaleh, and are thankful that _his_ biography at least (if written in the same longeval proportion) is irrecoverably lost to us.

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

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  • "all the live long day"

    February 15, 2009