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  • adverb In a prolonged manner; at length

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  • Why do males of some species attend to their offspring prolongedly, while others tend to spring off post-coitally?

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Each year my own acre has confessed itself so full of mistranslations of the true text of gardening, has promised, each season, so much fairer a show in its next edition, and has been kept so prolongedly busy teaching and reteaching its master where to plant what, while as to money outlays compelled to live so much more like a poet than like a prince, that the bent for story-telling itself could not help but say wait.

    The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884

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