agelong
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of agelong
Example Sentences
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Never in the agelong history of tuberculosis had there been such excitement about a new treatment for the white scourge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today the progress of science . . . has torn to pieces our agelong habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Judith strips myth down to Freudian psychology and debunks belief with Shavian iconoclasm�the tactics by which modern man burglarizes himself of an agelong heritage of mystery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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