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In some senses, livelong is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
livelong
adj 2noun 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
all
VERB + LIVELONG
name, spend
LIVELONG + NOUN
befitteth, day
Definitions
adj
1
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!
2
Lasting; durable.
Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a live-long monument.
noun
1
Orpine (Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium).
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I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.
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How dreary to be somebody! / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog!
Wiktionary03
[…] so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking
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