Word Meanings - LONGEVITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Long duration of life; length of life. The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

Related words: (words related to LONGEVITY)

• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• LONGEVITY
  Long duration of life; length of life. The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious. Arbuthnot.
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• DURATION
  The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.
• LENGTHILY
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• LENGTHY
  Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy
• LENGTH
  1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the
• ABSTEMIOUS
  1. Abstaining from wine. Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton. 2. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
• ABSTEMIOUSNESS
  The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• PERDURANCE; PERDURATION
  Long continuance.
• HALF-LENGTH
  Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• INDURATION
  1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard. 2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard. 3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character
• ENLENGTHEN
  To lengthen.
• AMONG; AMONGST
  among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the 1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part