† lenghn.
Obsolete.
Length (of time or space); in Old English also height, stature. at the lengh: in the long run.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time
lenghc888
longnessOE
enduringc1374
length1388
continuing1398
long lasting?c1400
perdurability?a1425
perseverance?a1425
permanence1440
perdurablenessc1450
perdurationc1450
continuation1469
diuturnity?a1475
prolixityc1500
endurancea1513
sustention1515
continuance1552
long standinga1568
longitude1596
long-lastingness1598
sempiternity1599
consistence1606
persistence1621
long-livedness1652
abidingness1654
productedness1664
imperdibility1713
longiturnity1727
endurableness1795
lengthiness1829
endurability1837
perenniality1841
longevity1842
protractedness1855
enduringnessa1867
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [noun]
lenghc888
longnessOE
length1154
dimension1413
sideness1422
longitude?a1425
prolixity?a1425
distance1582
longity1604
distent1613
protension1704
sidth1831
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [adverb] > in the long run
at (the) long runninga1450
at (the) long run1607
at the lengh1612
in the run1654
in the long run1768
in (also on, upon) the long run1814
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Sedgefield) xviii. §3 Tele nu þa lengu [MS. B. lenge] þære hwile.
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. xiv. [xi.] 296 Heo..toætecton lengeo þære þryh twegra fingra gemet.
a1000 Solomon & Saturn 180 Hu lang wæs Adam on lenge gesceapen?
c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 39 Ne wraððe mid ðe ne wuneð ones daiȝes længe.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xx. 2 Þou gaf til him lenghe of dayes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12393 A treen bedd, þat suld o lengh [Fairf. lenght, Gött. lenth, Trin. Cambr. lengþe] thre eln haf.
a1400–50 Alexander 5086 Lamprays sloȝis, þat sex cubettis clere was of clene lenghe.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 416 In lenghe of dayez þat euer schal wage.
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 72 In þis tyme þe day and þe nyght ys of oon lengh.
c1450 Lyarde in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 281 Elevyne myle on lenghe the parke es mett.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 8 Preamb. Clothes..drawen out in leyngh and brede.
1612 in 2nd Rep. Rec. Irel. 265 They knew that they must be emprisoned at the lengh, and therefore (said they) as good now as hereafter.
a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 67 The third was a man that had a horne on the left side of the hinder part of his head..and his wife told mee shee had cutt the lengh of her finger off..because the weight of itt was troublesome.
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