Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Living a long time; of great age.

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

  • adjective Living a long time; of great age.

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  • adjective Long-lasting, especially of life.

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Examples

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    Meghan McCain: "Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won’t comment on publicly." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Their impieties were surely of a deep dye, which required the whole element of water to wash them away, and overwhelmed their memories with themselves; and so shut up the first windows of time, leaving no histories of those longevous generations, when men might have been properly historians, when Adam might have read long lectures unto Methuselah, and Methuselah unto Noah.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • If you could overlook the sheer discomfort, though, it was a genuine thrill seeing one of hip-hop's most successful and longevous performers doing his G-thang in such a small venue.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

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  • Reportedly, the outfit is gearing up to reveal the PRS-350 and PRS-650, each of which will boast E Ink displays and be thinner/more longevous compared to the existing PRS-600 and PRS-300.

    PC Mike Wendland's Tech Blog 2010

  • Logitech raised a few eyebrows with the longevous battery life on the MK700, and for its encore the company is bringing even more endurance with a claimed three-year battery life for both the keyboard and mouse -- a feat it claims to have been first to achieve.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

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  • Logitech raised a few eyebrows with the longevous battery life on the MK700, and for its encore the company is bringing even more endurance with a claimed three-year battery life for both the keyboard and mouse -- a feat it claims to have been first to achieve.

    Engadget Vladislav Savov 2010

  • Your merit and fondness for your father or give it to your boyfriend which the hand chains with different links of london pendants as a timely gift which represents strong and longevous to them.

    VInvesting.com skybk 2010

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  • For decades ambitions deceive us

    Till dotage, when vain dreams will leave us,

    But one shining goal

    We may still control:

    Becoming revered and longevous.

    May 30, 2019