[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Tedious lengthiness; † tardiness (Sc.).
a. 1000. Ags. Ps. xx. 4 (Spelman). Langsumnysse daʓa.
1597. Jas. I., Dæmonol., 18. Considering the long-somenesse of the labour [etc.].
1601. J. Wheeler, Treat. Comm., 57. Such was the longsomenes of Returne, and the badness of the time at that instant.
1687. in Shields, Faithf. Contend. (1780), 289. We … must intreat your favour … for our longsomeness in sending.
1834. Q. Rev., L. 527. The first … of these objections is the length of the Sunday morning service—the ‘longsomeness,’ as Archdeacon Berens terms it.
1887. Sat. Rev., 1 Jan., 19. A pretty scene, but superfluous, and producing no other effect than that of longsomeness.
