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longness Now rare.|ˈlɒŋnɪs|
[OE. langnys, f. lang long a. + -nys -ness.]
Length (in various senses); long continuance; † protractedness, delay.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 408 Bradnyss, langnyss, heahnyss and deopnyss. 1340Ayenb. 105 Þet uerste word ous sseweþ þe langnesse of his eurebleuinge. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxi. (1495) 781 The Camelion is a beest lyke to the Cocadryll and is dyuers oonly in crokydnesse of the backe and in longnesse of the tayll. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. C vij b, And it be dyuidid after the longnes or after the brodenes. 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 250 The affaires betweene Cæsar and the French King proceeded with so great a longnesse. 1587Golding De Mornay Pref. 9, I shall sometimes be long, and peradventure tedious to the Reader,..But..in this longnesse of mine, I straine my nature to apply myselfe to all men. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 475 The longnesse of time will become tedious. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iii. viii. 148 It is shineing, indifferently hard, round behind, with some longness. 1684H. More Answer 254 The longness of the time. 1841Latham Eng. Lang. vi. 128 The Longness or Shortness of a Vowel or Syllable is said to be its Quantity. 1890Temple Bar July 431 She had a curious, opium-like perception of time's longness. |