Roget's Thesaurus#110. Diuturnity[Long duration.]Nounsdiuturnity; a long time, a length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness etc. 275; perpetuity etc. 112; blue moon, coon's age [U.S.], dog's age. durableness, durability; persistence, endlessness, lastingness etc. adj.; continuance, standing; permanence etc. (stability) 150; survival, survivance; longevity etc. (age) 128; distance of time. protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time; delay etc. (lateness) 133. Verbslast, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years. tarry etc. (be late) 133; drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time. outlast, outlive; survive; live to fight again. Adjectivesdurable; lasting etc. v.; of long duration, of long-standing; permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient, intransitive; intransmutable, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent, sempervirid; unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting; perpetual etc. 112. lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out etc. v.. long-pending, long-winded; slow etc. 275. Adverbslong; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day; long ago etc. (in a past time) 122; longo intervallo [It.]. all the day long, all the year round; the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day, etc.; for good; permanently etc. adj.. |