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| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : lengk-thee, leng-, len- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛŋk θi, ˈlɛŋ-, ˈlɛn- |
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Définition of lengthily
Origin :- 1759, American English, from length + -y (2). Until c.1840 always characterized in British English as an Americanism.
- This word has been very common among us, both in writing and in the language of conversation; but it has been so much ridiculed by Americans as well as Englishmen, that in writing it is now generally avoided. Mr. Webster has admitted it into his dictionary; but as need hardly be remarked it is not in any of the English ones. It is applied by us, as Mr. Webster justly observes, chiefly to writings or discourses. Thus we say, a lengthy pamphlet, a lengthy sermon, &c. The English would say, a long or (in the more familiar style) a longish sermon. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]
- Related: Lengthily; lengthiness.
- As in ad nauseam : adv to a sickening degree
- As in verbosely : adv wordily
- Never before in his life had Mark spoken so eloquently nor so lengthily.
- Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
- I only know that after talking so lengthily he fell into a nine days' silence.
- Extract from : « The Virginian » by Owen Wister
- Modesty may suffer from a lengthily savoured kiss between two Pietists of eighteen.
- Extract from : « Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary » by Voltaire
- A Conservative speech is as accurately (though perhaps not as lengthily) reported in a Liberal paper as in one of its own colour.
- Extract from : « The Land of Contrasts » by James Fullarton Muirhead
- Mr. Horbury looked quietly and lengthily at the boy, who stood white and sick before him.
- Extract from : « The Secret Glory » by Arthur Machen
- Charcoal in hand, he regarded Mrs. Hawthorne quietly and lengthily through half-closed eyes.
- Extract from : « Aurora the Magnificent » by Gertrude Hall
- He wrote in the theologian's vein, lengthily and bitterly; his friends listened in silence.
- Extract from : « A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times » by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- They finally arrived in the country of our friend Comogre, of whom I have lengthily spoken above.
- Extract from : « De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt
- If it had been on the rotation of my crops, I would have answered myself, lengthily perhaps, but certainly con gusto.
- Extract from : « Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson » by Thomas Jefferson
- They met halfway down the cement walk and conversed earnestly and lengthily.
- Extract from : « Prairie Gold » by Various
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