diuturnity

Roget category 110

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.1. Absolute time

#110. [Long duration.] Diuturnity

noun

diuturnity^† — 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.

verb

last, 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.

adjective

durable — 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.

adverb

long — 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, &c. — for good — permanently etc. adj..

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