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longeve

longeve adjective: longevous, long-lived.

Adjective

longeve (comparative more longeve, superlative most longeve)

  1. (obsolete, uncommon, largely) Longevous, long-lived.
    • 1673-4, Grew, Veget. Trunks, iii: According as the Tree is less or more Longæve.
    • But the only use which that Philosopher makes of this Story is this, to prove that Demons having Bodies as well as men, (though of a different kind from them and much more longeve) yet were notwithstanding Mortal : […]1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, page 345

Examples of longeve in a sentence

  • Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality, / And helps its present life to health […]1900, Walt Whitman, The Lamp, page 128:
  • The most long-lived men can arrive up to one hundred years, while the medium and less longeve respectively can live up to eighty and sixty years.2003, Paolo Santangelo, Sentimental Education in Chinese History, page 444:

Forms of longeve

comparativemore longeve
superlativemost longeve

Questions about longeve

What does longeve mean?
Longeve means longevous, long-lived.
How do you use longeve in a sentence?
Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality, / And helps its present life to health […]
What part of speech is longeve?
Longeve is an adjective.

Words near longeve in the dictionary

  1. longest-suffering
  2. longest-term
  3. longests
  4. longeth
  5. longeval
  6. longeve
  7. longevious
  8. longevism
  9. longevities
  10. longevitous
  11. longevity

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