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longevity|lɒnˈdʒɛvɪtɪ|
Also 7 -ævitie, -evitie, 7–8 -ævity, 8 -ivity.
[ad. L. longævitātem, f. longæv-us longevous. Cf. F. longévité.]
Long life; long duration of existence.
1615A. Stafford Heav. Dogge 105 He beleeued the longeuity of the soule, and not the eternity. 1621S. Ward Life of Faith xiii. 109 The longæuity of those that liued before the Floud. 1692Bentley Boyle Serm. iii. 90 He hath not extended the period of our Lives to the Longævity of the Antediluvians. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 169 ⁋1 Animals generally exceed each other in longevity, in proportion to the time between their conception and their birth. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 43 The town is..remarkable for the health and longævity of its inhabitants. 1813Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) I. 40 The longevity of fish is far superior to that of other creatures. 1862Lytton Str. Story I. 180 Is it a sign of longevity when a man looks much younger than he is? 1873Hamerton Intell. Life i. vii. (1875) 41 Young men are careless of longevity. |