a. [LONG adv.] Continued or that has continued for a long period or space.

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1478.  Will R. Verney, in Verney Papers (1853), 28. I biqueth to Alice Wetherhede, my long-continued seruaunt, xls.

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1570.  T. Norton, trans. Nowell’s Catech. (1853), 131. Long-continued age in such a miserable and wicked life.

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1596.  Drayton, Leg. Robt. Norm., cxxii. But now to end this long-continued Strife.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., VII. 127. Day following day, a long-continued feast. Ibid., XIII. 233. Long-continu’d ways, and winding floods.

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1876.  Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (1878), 667. Worn out by … long-continued pain.

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