livelong
noun
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L338167 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief + long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German der liebe lange Tag (“the livelong day”) and German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).
- Total, complete, whole.
“I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.”
“How dreary to be somebody! / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog!”
- Lasting; durable.
“Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a live-long monument.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief + long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German der liebe lange Tag (“the livelong day”) and German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).
- Orpine (Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium).