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Longness

noun
1.
The property of being of long spatial extent.
2.
Duration as an extension.





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"Longness" Quotes from Famous Books



... man with beard grown overlong, * Tho' be he therefor reverenced and fear'd, But who the shortness noted in his wits * Added to longness noted ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... Browning is that from her weakness should have come poems of such strength. There was nothing morbid in the words which came from her hushed, darkened sick room. Indeed, her spirit was never tamed, and she herself confessed that one of her faults was "head-longness;" that she snatched parcels open instead of untying the string, and tore letters instead of cutting them. In Browning's poems, which contain numerous beautiful allusions to her, there is nothing more beautiful and ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester


Words linked to "Longness" :   longevity, length, elongation, lengthiness, long, length of service, shortness, duration, extension, prolongation


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