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Definition of Agelong
1. Adjective. Lasting through all time. "Agelong struggle for freedom"
Definition of Agelong
1. Adjective. lasting throughout all time; eternal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agelong
1. lasting for a long time [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agelong
Literary usage of Agelong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Expositions by Samuel Cox (1885)
"... or agelong; and that an “agelong destruction,” a ruin or death which is only
to last for an age, cannot be a final and complete destruc-. tion. ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1882)
"spiritual," now " agelong." But all that I ventured to propose has been done in
our Revised Version. The word "everlasting," implying endless duration, ..."
3. History of Interpretation: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of by Frederic William Farrar (1886)
"But, secondly, I borrow the method of Bishop Butler, and say that the agelong
misinterpretations of the Bible are no more a disproof of its divine authority ..."
4. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers by Edward Carpenter (1904)
"... that immense storehouse of agelong knowledge and power which is represented
by the physical body in the individual, as it is represented by the communal ..."
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"... her royal lineage, her emblems, the late-flowering plant and late-blossoming
tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men. ..."
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