endlong
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- endelong (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Old English andlang ( > along), re-formed by popular etymology in Middle English as end + long; partly from Old Norse cognate endlangr.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
endlong
Translations[edit]
from end to end
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Adverb[edit]
endlong (not comparable)
- From end to end.
- Continuously.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The rest he leaves in ground: So takes in hond
To seeke her endlong both by sea and lond
- On end.