length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness &c 275;
perpetuity &c 112; blue moon, coon's age [U.S.], dog's age.
durableness, durability; persistence, endlessness, lastingness &c
adj.†; continuance, standing; permanence &c (stability) 150; survival,
survivance†; longevity &c (age) 128; distance of time.
protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time;
delay &c (lateness) 133.
V. last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand
years.
tarry &c (be late) 133; drag on, drag its slow length along, drag
a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out,
lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time.
outlast, outlive; survive; live to fight again.
Adj. durable; lasting &c v.; of long duration, of long-standing;
permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient†, intransitive;
intransmutable†, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval†, long-lived,
macrobiotic, diuturnal†, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent†,
sempervirid†; unrelenting, unintermitting†, unremitting; perpetual &c
112.
lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out &c v.. long-pending,
long-winded; slow &c 275.
Adv. long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for
many a long day; long ago &c (in a past time) 122; longo intervallo
[It].
all the day long, all the year round; the livelong day, as the day
is long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day, &c;
for good; permanently &c adj..