agelong

[eyj-lawng, -long]

adjective

1. lasting for an age.

Word History and Origins

Origin of agelong¹

First recorded in 1800–10; age + long ¹

Example Sentences

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.

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She in her agelong toil and care Persistent, wearies not nor stays, Mocking alike hope and despair.

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I do not propose here to reopen the agelong dispute between free will and determinism, which seems to me largely verbal.

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In his own spirit is enacted the agelong world-drama of toil.

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So only shall ye close this agelong strife, Nor by redemption of a too fair wife, Now smiling, now averse, now hot, now cold, O Menelaus, may the tale be told!

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