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‖ longo intervallo|ˈlɒŋgəʊ ɪntəˈvæləʊ|
[Lat., lit. ‘at a great distance’.]
At some remove, though there is a gulf between them (of two persons, places, etc., being compared).
1693Dryden tr. Juvenal's Satires (Dedication) p. iii, The most Vain, and the most Ambitious..have yielded the first place without dispute; and have been arrogantly content, to be esteem'd as second to your Lordship, and even that also, with a Longo, sed proximi Intervallo. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 227 Almost all subsequent progress has been made in Germany, Holland, and, longo intervallo, America. 1923Spectator 17 Feb. 294/1 In casual passages The Orissers may seem dull, pompous and even ridiculous; but as a whole it has a strange power, a conviction and an intensity of imagination that mark it off from other novels and link it, longo intervallo, with Moby Dick and Wuthering Heights. 1935J. C. Masterman Fate cannot harm Me ii. 44, I remember asking him once..who were his literary idols among the moderns. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘Max Beerbohm of course..and then, but longo intervallo, P. G. Wodehouse.’ |