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live⋅long

  [liv-lawng, -long]
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–adjective
(of time) whole or entire, esp. when tediously long, slow in passing, etc.: We picked apples the livelong day.
Origin:
1350–1400; alter. (by assoc. with live 1 ) of earlier leeve long, ME leve longe dear long. See lief, long 1
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live·long   (lĭv'lông', -lŏng')   
adj.  Complete; whole: the livelong day.

[Middle English : leve, lefe, dear, used as an intensive (from Old English lēof, dear; see leubh- in Indo-European roots) + long, long; see long1.]
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livelong 
c.1400, lefe longe (day), from leve, lief "dear" (see lief), used here as an emotional intensive + long. From late 16c. the first word was mistaken for live (v.). Ger. has cognate die liebe lange Nacht, lit. "the dear long night."
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