Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Long as an age; that lasts or has lasted for an age; unending: as, agelong strife.
Wiktionary
- adj. lasting throughout all time; eternal
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. lasting through all time; unending.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lasting through all time
Etymologies
- age + -long (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Tifftiff today, kissykissy tonay and agelong pine tomauran-na.”
“It derives too from the fact that Scripture comes to the hearer as an inseparable part of the total life and witness of the Christian church, and so carries with it the authority of the church's agelong experience and testimony.”
“So we answer to the infernal, agelong and eternal order issued from on high.”
“Some agelong string had been pulled within her, or she was infected by the emotion of one whom she had always admired and loved, and whom she had hardly ever seen stirred to eloquence.”
“The yellow, blinkless eyes, with knife-edge pupils, flashed with the hate of agelong feud as I edged against the wall.”
“It was the sound of the agora, the wineshop, the gymnasium, the forum; agelong leitmotif of the lands by the Middle Sea.”
“The determinist will speak slightingly of the “sub - jective character” of personal experience and its ex - pressions, the libertarian of the “abstract and diagram - matic character” of causality-constructions; while the agnostic will cite the agelong inconclusiveness of the debate between the two other parties, and the inade - quacy of language as such to the nature of things.”
“There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea, such as Beren fought in the Mountains of Terror in Doriath, and so came to Lúthien upon the green sward amid the hemlocks in the moonlight long ago.”
“To Merry the ascent seemed agelong, a meaningless journey in a hateful dream, going on and on to some dim ending that memory cannot seize.”
“The ludicrous result marks the impropriety of bestowing the agelong duration of marble upon small, characteristic individualities, such as might come within the province of waxen imagery.”
Lists
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Blippets
Time~sphere phenomena, manipulations, fluctuations, processes, measurements, and oddities. For use in building my machine.
microfortnight, transilient, instant, flash, breath, blink, beat, momentary, nimesha, truti, second, centisecond and 120 more...
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Stick Around
annotine, lasting, durable, everlasting, permanence, stable, abiding, immortal, hibernaculum, continual, dwelling-place, abiding-place and 57 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Long Words
agelong, daylong, endlong, erelong, headlong, hourlong, lifelong, livelong, nightlong, overlong, prolong, sidelong and 2 more...
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