longeval
Pronunciations
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/lɒnˈd͡ʒiːvəl/
Adjective
Long-lived
Usage- Archaic
- Rare
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More examples (1)
If under their present low circumstances of birth and breeding, and in so short a term of life as is now allotted to them, they so far exceed all beasts, and equal many men; what prodigies may we not conceive of those, who were nati melioribus annis, those primitive, longeval, and antediluvian man-tigers, who first taught science to the world?
Word forms
more longevalmost longevallongaeval