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Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.

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  1. a. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
  2. a. Lasting; durable.
  3. adj. (of time) constituting the full extent or duration
  4. n. perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
  5. 1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play Swift. 2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.] Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton.
  6. n:100 s. (of time) constituting the full extent or duration