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lifelong

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life·long  (lflông, -lng)
adj.
Continuing for a lifetime.
lifelong
Adjective
lasting for a lifetime
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Adj.1.lifelong - continuing through life; "a lifelong friend"; "from lifelong habit"; "his lifelong study of Greek art"
womb-to-tomb
long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
lifelong
adjective long-lasting, enduring, lasting, permanent, constant, lifetime, for life, persistent, long-standing, perennial, deep-rooted, for all your life
Translations
lifelong [ˈlaɪflɔŋ] adj → de toda la vida
lifelong [ˈlaɪflɔŋ] adj → de toute une vie, de toujours
lifelong [ˈlaɪflɔŋ] life adj → lebenslang
lifelong [ˈlaɪflɔŋ] adj → per tutta la vita


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I tell you it is a lifelong wrong, and a lifelong loss; but thank heaven, they don't do it now.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
She opened her treasure-drawer: there lay the ear-rings and the locket--the signs of all her short happiness--the signs of the lifelong dreariness that was to follow it.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
But he kept his affection for certain poets of the graver, not to say gloomier sort, and he must have suffered his children to read them, pending that great question of their souls' salvation which was a lifelong trouble to him.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
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