Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- For a long time.
- Lengthily in space.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete With longing desire.
- adverb For a long time; hence, wearisomely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete With
longing desire. - adverb For a long time;
wearisomely .
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Those who have already placed orders should have their books shortly; or longly if coming via the Mexican postal service.
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Those who have already placed orders should have their books shortly; or longly if coming via the Mexican postal service.
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Those who have already placed orders should have their books shortly; or longly if coming via the Mexican postal service.
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Those who have already placed orders should have their books shortly; or longly if coming via the Mexican postal service.
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An “insightful analysis” for the longly titled Which species?
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I have longly searched ways to set up an AJAX discussion mean with these features and a self-moderated community, giving a better performance in terms of maintenance, and Lounge TALKS comes with a lightning fast and efficient database back end to provide real stability.
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My fear is that if it's said longly and loudly enough, with no venue for McCain to defend himself, it will become a given.
Was Obama's only education accomplishment "legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners"? Ann Althouse 2008
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We knew all this at the time, and said so, loudly and longly, and were ignored and dismissed.
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There is a C in the last act of Gotterdammerung that mostly exists outside of the score as a yelp, except of course when Melchior sings it firmly and longly as if it were a middle C.
Oy Lisa Hirsch 2007
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Fung Yang dynasdescendanced, only another the son of, in fact, ever looked sufficiently longly at a quite everydaylooking stamped addressed envelope?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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