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ˈyear-long, a.
[f. year1 + long a. Cf. OE. ᵹéarlanges adv. for a year, MHG. jârlanc, (G. jahrelang), ON. árlangt (as adv.)]
Of the length of a year; lasting for a year, or throughout the year; often, lasting for years in succession, (sometimes) age-long.
1813Coleridge Lett., to T. Poole (1895) 612 The year-long difference [viz. Feb. 1812–13] between me and Wordsworth. 1847Tennyson Princess vii. 319 Thee..From year-long poring on thy pictured eyes, Ere seen I loved. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. i. 16 No Greenland winter waits us there, No year-long night. 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 44 Her legislative assembly..did good service to her fame at the time, but the year-long farce soon lost its plausibility. 1886W. Wallace in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 453/1 The yearlong alliance between philosophy and theology.
b. hyperbolically. Seeming as long as a year.
1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 92 Through year-long hours of hope and woe She sits and waits.
So ˈyears-long a. (rare—1), lasting for several or many years.
1887Hardy Woodlanders I. xiii. 235 The years-long regard that she had had for him. |