agelong

[ eyj-lawng, -long ]

adjective

1. lasting for an age.

Word History and Origins

Origin of agelong¹

First recorded in 1800–10; age + long ¹

Example Sentences

You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity.

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Such consequences, so wide-spread and agelong, can follow from the story of but one life.

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The yellow, blinkless eyes, with knife-edge pupils, flashed with the hate of agelong feud as I edged against the wall.

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The unity of our own France was forged by agelong struggles between the separate provinces.

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I do not propose here to reopen the agelong dispute between free will and determinism, which seems to me largely verbal.

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