单词 | lifelong |
释义 | † lifelongn. Obsolete. The duration of one's life; a lifetime. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant v. 88 I cou'd wish that my whole Life long were the first Night of a New Play.] 1814 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 516 It proves how careful we ought to be.—If I had done it, it might have made [me] unhappy for my Life-long. a1836 R. H. Froude Mem. (1849) 47 For the making of a single rich man, we make a thousand whose life-long is one flood-tide of misery. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 119 A spot wherein a student might have passed a lifelong. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2019). lifelongadj.adv. A. adj. 1. Lasting or continuing for a lifetime, or throughout one's life. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > course or span of life > for duration of a lifetime lifelong1613 livelong1788 forever1879 womb-to-tomb1947 lifetime1962 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 31 The drowsie Lawyer, and the false Atturnies Tire poore mens purses with their life-long-iournies. 1650 R. Baron Pocula Castalia 100 Why should hope flatter me? since her fair hands I find so loath to tie those life-long bands? 1700 C. Hopkins Friendship Improv'd ii. 13 In vain with life-long Trouble we contend, Where Women are concern'd, it cannot end. a1750 A. Hill Northern Star in Wks. (1753) I. 183 Tell him,—that hair-breadth 'scapes, and life-long fear, Buy pow'r, and pomp, and infamy, too dear. 1866 J. H. Newman Dream of Gerontius §2 The history of that dreary, lifelong fray. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 267 Plato..in his life-long effort to work out the great intellectual puzzle of his age. 1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 6 Nov. (1988) I. 486 My ‘nerves’ are a very mild affair, due..to an aboulie and emotional derangement which has been a lifelong affliction. 1944 M. Irwin Young Bess vi. 79 The lifelong rivalry had ended without either of them finally succeeding in getting the better of the other. 1964 R. Gover Here goes Kitten 33 It taught me a valuable lesson, a lifelong lesson. 2007 N.Y. Mag. 20 Aug. 46 They are pretty much lifelong rentals... The only way tenants vacate the spaces is horizontally. 2. = livelong adj. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring longeOE longsomeeOE long of lifeOE lastinga1225 cleaving1340 continualc1340 dwellingc1380 long-livinga1382 everlastingc1384 long-duringa1387 long-lasting?a1400 long-liveda1400 broadc1400 permanable?c1422 perseverant?a1425 permanentc1425 perdurable?a1439 continuedc1440 abiding1448 unremoved1455 eternalc1460 long-continued1464 continuing1526 long-enduring1527 enduring1532 immortal1538 diuturn?1541 veterated1547 resiant?1567 stayinga1568 well-wearinga1568 substantive1575 pertinacious1578 extant1581 ceaseless1590 marble1596 of length1597 longeval1598 diuturnal1599 nine-lived1600 chronic1601 unexhausted1602 chronical1604 endurable1607 continuant1610 indeflourishing1610 aged1611 indurant1611 continuatea1616 perennious1628 seculara1631 undiscontinueda1631 continuated1632 untransitory1632 long-spun1633 momently1641 stative1643 outliving1645 constant1653 long-descended1660 voluminousa1661 perduring1664 perdurant1671 livelong1673 perennial1676 longeve1678 consequential1681 unquenched1703 lifelong1746 momentary1755 inveterate1780 stabile1797 persistent1826 unpassing1831 all-time1846 year-long1846 teak-built1847 lengthful1855 long-term1867 long haul1873 sticky1879 week-to-week1879 perenduring1883 long-range1885 longish1889 long-time1902 long run1904 long-life1915 the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > too long or tedious overlonga1400 prolixc1425 prolixious1599 tediousa1616 expensive1628 lifelong1746 overlength1941 1746 Bull-finch 152 Young Damon sighs, and pines away, In Secret makes his Moan; Of Marcia thinks the life-long Day. 1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances I. lxii. 107 I wished for you..in vain all Night, the life-long Night. 1766 H. Meen Happiness 5 Can I who labor out the life-long day For trivial gain be happy? 1814 R. Southey Roderick xvi. 240 A life-long night Seel'd his broad eye. 1845 Mirror 7 495/1 Did the Abbot Erro To the forest go; And in pious musings, Through the life-long day, 'Midst the trackless woodlands, Lost his way for aye. 1907 Eng. Illustrated. Mag. Nov. 128/1 It sat there, through the life-long day, without any motion or sound, listening to what all the other birds had to say. B. adv. During the whole length of life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adverb] > in one's life all my (his, etc.) lifeOE lifelong1868 in (all) one's (born) puff1872 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. ii. 86 He owned some usufruct, had moneys' use Lifelong. 1929 E. Bowen Last September vii. 86 Was she..to crawl round lifelong inside some quality? 2001 Oxoniensia 65 111 As a gentleman-commoner at Christ Church, he [sc. John Ruskin] established a network of academic connections and friendships which lasted lifelong. Compounds lifelong learning n. a form of or approach to education which promotes the continuation of learning throughout adult life, esp. by making educational material and instruction available through libraries, colleges, or information technology. ΚΠ 1930 Frederick (Maryland) Post 9 Apr. 5/1 Emmitsburg Lifelong Learning Center. 1941 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 12 17 In every junior-college district are thousands of persons..who feel the urge for lifelong learning, and who would eagerly avail themselves of the opportunities of a community college. 1988 H. R. Moody Abundance of Life iii. 47 Older worker retraining, self-help and production for use, and new uses of telecommunications technology for lifelong learning are only a few of the areas where policy interventions could make a difference. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Feb. iv. 11/1 For starters, we're going to have to get serious about some of the things we just gab about—job training, life-long learning, wage insurance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814adj.adv.1613 |
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