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Definition of Livelong
1. Adjective. (of time) constituting the full extent or duration. "All the livelong day"
2. Noun. Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Sedum
Generic synonyms: Sedum
Definition of Livelong
1. a. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
Definition of Livelong
1. Adjective. total, complete, whole ¹
2. Noun. the orpine, ''Sedum telephium'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Livelong
1. long in passing [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Livelong
Literary usage of Livelong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, Andrew Lang, Samuel Henry Butcher (1900)
"sat the livelong day, until the going down of the sun, feasting on abundant flesh
and sweet wine. And when the sun had sunk and darkness had come on, ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Lifelong is not in Todd's Johnson ; and is, in fact, a mere modem revival of the
orig. form oí livelong, differentiated from it as to sense. which connected ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"I saw their boats with many a light, Floating the livelong yesternight, Shifting
like flashes darted forth By the red streamers of the north; ..."
4. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... To show their pressing wants and smile assent, And joyous chatter all the
livelong day ; Bereft of these, in deep affliction bathed, She sighed and with ..."
5. Hyak Nin Is'shiu, Or Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical by Frederick Victor Dickins (1866)
"With wretched thoughts distracted I On sleepless pallet restless lay The livelong
night: with wistful eye I waited for the breaking day Through chink of ..."
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