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livelong

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live·long  (lvlông, -lng)
adj.
Complete; whole: the livelong day.
[Middle English : leve, lefe, dear, used as an intensive (from Old English lof, dear; see leubh- in Indo-European roots) + long, long; see long1.]
livelong [liv-long]
Adjective
Chiefly poetic long or seemingly long: all the livelong day
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Noun1.livelonglivelong - perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium
genus Sedum - large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves
sedum - any of various plants of the genus Sedum
Adj.1.livelong - (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the livelong day"
whole - including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete; "gave his whole attention"; "a whole wardrobe for the tropics"; "the whole hog"; "a whole week"; "the baby cried the whole trip home"; "a whole loaf of bread"


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Do you know we have been together the whole livelong day, Robert--since early this morning?
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
Heaven sent us excellent sport; I had twelve ships with me, and each ship got nine goats, while my own ship had ten; thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we ate and drank our fill, and we had plenty of wine left, for each one of us had taken many jars full when we sacked the city of the Cicons, and this had not yet run out.
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