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单词 for long
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for long
c. for long: long ago. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > long ago
yorec900
for longOE
langer1303
long agoc1350
far1362
for yorea1375
of yore ago(ne)a1375
long time1376
of olda1393
anciently1502
langsyne?a1513
oldlya1513
in old season1582
old1609
antiquely1652
then-a-days1688
(the) year one1754
way back1870
in yore1876
way back when1921
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xxiii. 19 Propter siditionem quondam facta in ciuitate : fore setnung uel huilum uel for longe awordeno in ðær ceastra.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8386 Tær bilæf he þanne. To fillenn þatt tatt cwiddedd wass Forrlannge þurrh prophete.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4507 (MED) For lang was said, and yeit sua bes, ‘Hert sun for-gettes þat ne ei seis’.
a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 91 (MED) I wend þou had bene ded forlang, Now wote I wele my wit was wrang.
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for long
c. for long.
(a) Throughout a long period. Now chiefly in negative contexts. Also occasionally †for long and long, for long together. Also (chiefly with reference to a period extending into the future) modified by adverbs of degree, as much, very, etc. (sometimes with long in comparative).
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the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a long time
longeOE
longOE
longlyOE
longsomelyOE
yorec1275
lastingly1372
longsa1450
for longa1530
in length1566
with the longest1636
stayingly1648
eternally1664
sometime1801
chronically1854
forever1861
somewhile1864
for the duration1916
long-term1947
secularly1971
a1530 T. Lupset Exhort. to Yonge Men (1535) Ded. f. 2v For longe I haue ben taught, that the mayster neuer hurtethe his scholer more, than whan he vttereth & shewethe..the loue that he bearethe to his scholers.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lvj For long we haue sought the furious bore, and now we haue found him.
1626 T. Aylesbury Passion Serm. 15 The Iewes for long were..the fauourites of heauen.
1732 B. Lynde Diary 29 Dec. in B. Lynde & B. Lynde Diaries (1880) 35 Expecting the governor would adjourn for long the Gen'l. Court.
1784 H. Downman Editha ii. ii. 22 For long we've thought thee dead.
1787 I. Yonge Comm. Holy Bible 112 The preparing the children of Israel for the coming of the Messiah, is the great point he has in view, and he seldom loses sight of it for long together.
1839 in Spirit Metrop. Conservative Press (1840) II. 535 No man..kept himself for long and long, at a fearful..speed, as did Lord Brougham.
1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 148 Her back aches..frightfully if she sits up for long together.
1874 Ld. Houghton Let. 7 Sept. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) II. xviii. 300 Ripon's conversion is one of the oddest news I have heard for long.
1895 Mrs. H. Ward Bessie Costrell v. 121 The children..had been restless for long.
1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast (1928) ii. 38 I found it impossible to be angry with them for long, they were so babyishly innocent.
a1958 H. N. Brailsford Levellers & Eng. Revol. (1961) xiv. 303 An incalculable force, on whom no one could reckon with confidence for long together.
2005 Independent 16 Nov. 16/3 Thomas wouldn't comment yesterday, although friends tell me he won't be silenced for long.
(b) As complement to uses of the verb to be with non-referential it as subject: likely to continue for a long time. Also modified by adverbs of degree, as much, very, etc. (sometimes with long in comparative). Chiefly in negative contexts. Cf. sense 5.
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1802 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress IV. viii. 192 ‘Well, Lord, it may'nt be for long,’ replied Dolly.
1862 ‘H. Glyn’ Cotton Lord I. xii. 130 But it won't be for much longer now; we are going to get married and reform.
1920 Business Jan. 33/2 The town has grown so fast there is a scarcity of hotel accommodations; but this won't be for long.
1977 B. Way Magical Faces 22 It isn't for long, now. He hasn't got long.
2010 L. Kate Torment i. 37 It's not for long. As soon as things are safer, I'll come for you.
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