livelong
Americanadjective
adjective
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(of time) long or seemingly long, esp in a tedious way (esp in the phrase all the livelong day )
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whole; entire
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of livelong
1350–1400; alteration (by association with live 1 ) of earlier leeve long, Middle English leve longe dear long. See lief, long 1
Example Sentences
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How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
From New York Times
And so, Negan ruled that Olivia must die unless the weapons were found, then revealed his compunctions: “I don’t enjoy killing women. Men? I can waste them all the livelong day.”
From The Guardian
Can they really be arguing that they don't get a look-in, that the schedules are fat with theologians discussing sin, transubstantiation, divine providence and the apocalypse the livelong day?
From BBC
Until he recently relocated, Mr. Monbiot used to look up at the bare hills above his house in Machynlleth, Wales, and seethe at what Lord Tennyson lovingly called “the livelong bleat / Of the thick-fleeced sheep.”
From New York Times
The wall between our cubes is half-height so I can not only hear but see her bobbing and twirling all the livelong day.
From Salon
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