Dictionary entry

Livelong

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Live″long′ (?), a. [For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong.] 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.

Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton.