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[ adverb ] of the distant or comparatively distant past
Examples "We met once long ago" "they long ago forsook their nomadic life" "left for work long ago" "he has long since given up mountain climbing" "This name has long since been forgotten" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)The reason and the day of `` grandfather_clauses '' has long_since passed . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes , the startled horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are_born at the end of an ancestral line long_since divorced from money-making and which , besides , has kept its estate intact . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)The only thing unusual about the Old_Man had long_since happened . |
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