Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Complete; whole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being as long as life; having a long life; that lives or endures long; lasting; durable.
- Continuing or seeming to continue long; passing slowly; tedious.
- noun A plant, Sedum Telephium; live-for-ever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
- adjective obsolete Lasting; durable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
total ,complete ,whole - noun the
orpine , Sedum telephium
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of time) constituting the full extent or duration
- noun perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Green herbs called "livelong" were plucked by the children and hung up on Midsummer Eve.
The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley
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TerrytheTurtle, brought to you by Exlax says: livelong – makes sense what you say, I think they screwed up putting those events up there.
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All I did that blessed, livelong day was to sweat and swelter in the sun, mortify my lean flesh upon the rock, gaze out of the desolation, resurrect old memories, dream dreams, and mutter my convictions aloud.
Chapter 12 2010
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No one who reads your blog would expect you could be terrified into submission by nude pictures of our larval-pale author bodies toned to perfection by sitting in front of computers all the livelong day, as you are made of sterner stuff.
2010 Is The Year of The Beast; Or, Updated Submission Guidelines 2010
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The book is a memoir of her spiritual journey starting in her youth in Honduras, her flirtations with a number of spiritual paths and philosophies, including time she spent in the 1960s in Paris with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir, and culminating in her discovering her livelong spiritual guide and teacher Sathya Sai Baba in southern India.
Bernard Starr: Stop Kvetching. Self-Publishing Is Here To Stay -- And Vaulting Ahead Bernard Starr 2011
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I already watch no television, listen to no commercial radio, and read few “mainstream” (i.e. fascist) news sources, yet corporate rapists, terrorists, and thugs have at me all the livelong day.
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With that being said, as a livelong Democrat, I wish it was Nancy pelosi who was retiring.
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And the gut tells me always when I've gone wrong, a rant as it were to singsong, to livelong.
I Cant Ghazal Dennis Mahagin 2011
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I already watch no television, listen to no commercial radio, and read few “mainstream” (i.e. fascist) news sources, yet corporate rapists, terrorists, and thugs have at me all the livelong day.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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The book is a memoir of her spiritual journey starting in her youth in Honduras, her flirtations with a number of spiritual paths and philosophies, including time she spent in the 1960s in Paris with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir, and culminating in her discovering her livelong spiritual guide and teacher Sathya Sai Baba in southern India.
Bernard Starr: Stop Kvetching. Self-Publishing Is Here To Stay -- And Vaulting Ahead Bernard Starr 2011
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