Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English comparative of long.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long.

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Examples

  • Nå fx Noen banker aksepterer ikke lenger 10 år gammel ID-kort, som selvfølgelig id NWO – EU-politikk:

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Regulation Gone Mad 2009

  • Using Chaucer's spelling this time: "No lenger thanne after Deeth they soughte" -- because, of course, the drunks have found him, though they're too dim to realize it.

    Chaucer's Road Show Revisited 2008

  • Something must be done by a man who refuses a challenge, to let a chal-lenger see

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • It had been 2½ years since the Chal lenger blew up.

    Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

  • It had been 2½ years since the Chal lenger blew up.

    Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

  • Feedburner just went commercial on me, and I no lenger get the nifty statistics of which items people like and which readers access the feed every day unless I agree to upgrade to a pro account.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Torill 2005

  • Feedburner just went commercial on me, and I no lenger get the nifty statistics of which items people like and which readers access the feed every day unless I agree to upgrade to a pro account.

    Is Feedburner important? Torill 2005

  • And fro that tyme hiderwardes, thei nevere wolden suffren man to dwelle amonges hem, lenger than 7 dayes and 7 nyghtes; ne that no child that were male, scholde duelle amonges hem, longer than he were noryscht; and thanne sente to his fader.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And fro that tyme hiderwardes, thei nevere wolden suffren man to dwelle amonges hem, lenger than 7 dayes and 7 nyghtes; ne that no child that were male, scholde duelle amonges hem, longer than he were noryscht; and thanne sente to his fader.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Boke of hawkynge, huntynge, and fysshynge, with all the propertyes and medecynes that are necessarye to be kepte_: "Hawkes haue aboute theyr legges gesses made of lether most comonly, some of sylke, which shuld be no lenger but that the knottes of them shulde appere in the myddes of the lefte hande," &c.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

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