agelong
[ eyj-lawng, -long ]
adjective
lasting for an age.
Origin of agelong
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How to use agelong in a sentence
You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity.
Ulysses | James JoyceSuch consequences, so wide-spread and agelong, can follow from the story of but one life.
The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1 | A. MaclarenThe yellow, blinkless eyes, with knife-edge pupils, flashed with the hate of agelong feud as I edged against the wall.
Tropic Days | E. J. BanfieldThe unity of our own France was forged by agelong struggles between the separate provinces.
The Forerunners | Romain RollandI do not propose here to reopen the agelong dispute between free will and determinism, which seems to me largely verbal.
The Forerunners | Romain Rolland
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