livelong Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
orpin; Sedum telephium; live-forever; orpine.
adjective satellite (of time) constituting the full extent or duration
- all the livelong day

For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong.

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.
Lasting; durable. Obs.
Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton.