centurieslong

See also: centuries-long

English

Adjective

centurieslong (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of centuries-long.
   • 2000, The Black Hills: Kutch in History and Legend: A Study in Indian Local Loyalties, Ahmedabad: Sahitya Mudranalaya Pvt. Ltd., front flap:

     This study of Kutch today and yesterday is timely, since the State has now lost its centurieslong isolation and is making a vital contribution to the new India.

   • 2001, V. Subramaniam, “Indian Legacy of Administration”, in Ali Farazmand, editor, Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration (Public Administration and Public Policy; 94), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 77:

     (1) Marx, according to one interpretation of the “Asiatic Mode of Production,” (2) regarded them as the cause of centurieslong stagnation of the process of economic evolution and was happy that British colonialism in India would set in motion fundamental changes.

   • 2001, “Olga Neuwirth”, in Zeitenwechsel: 35 Jahre Berliner Kunstlerprogramm‎^[1], [Berlin]: DAAD, →OCLC:

     This bespeaks a striving analogous to the centurieslong attempt to establish an earthly counterpart to the music of the spheres, whose supposed essence – the very paragon of harmony – is said to be inspired by the harmonic interplay of celestial bodies in intergalactic space.

   • 2002, Tom Paulin, “Schwarzwald oder Bauhaus”, in The Invasion Handbook, London: Faber and Faber, published 2003, →ISBN, page 88:

     […] the inner relationship of my own work to the Black Forest and its people comes from a centurieslong and irreplaceable rootedness in the Alemannian Swabian soil […]

   • 2003, Murray L. Eiland Jr., Murray Eiland III, Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Bulfinch Press, AOL Time Warner Book Group, page 79, column 2:

     The centurieslong Uşak series, including other western Anatolian types such as large- and small-pattern Holbeins and Lottos are almost certainly workshop products.

   • 2006, Robert Hieronimus with Laura Cortner, Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and the Decoding of the Great Seal‎^[2], Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, →ISBN:

     I believe that we are at a point in time when we are witnessing a change in the historical record, a change in the discipline of historical writing that, as Vine Deloria Jr. put it, moves away from the “centurieslong simplistic doctrinal interpretation of history as a good white man/bad Indian scenario.”

   • 2009, Anthony S. Mercatante, James R. Dow, “Introduction”, in The Facts On File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend (Facts On File Library of Religion and Mythology), 3rd edition, volumes I (A–L), New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, →ISBN, page xiv, column 1:

     Source seeking set scholars off on a centurieslong quest that left us with intriguing theories and extensive compendia for comparing the various tales but otherwise produced far too little information to give us answers to our continuing quest for sources.

   • 2010, Herbert S. Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade (New Approaches to the Americas), 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 120:

     The Mali Empire in the Upper Niger region was fairly unique in its use of a powerful royal household to select the monarch and this is often cited as one of the reasons for its unusual centurieslong longevity.

   • 2020 June 26, Katie Foran-McHale, “New on DVD”, in Stars and Stripes, volume 79, number 50, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, page 35:

     But the centurieslong feud of a 74-year-old Scottish man isn’t the thing that makes the film feel dated.