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long-ago
Attrib. use of the advb. phrase long ago (see ago): That has long gone by; that belongs to the distant past. Also quasi-n. and n., the distant past or its events; rarely in pl.
a1834Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. CXXXI. (1882) 116/2 My long, long-ago theory of volition as a mode of double-touch. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. i. Castle Vautsberg, The shapes of joy and woe, The airy crowds of long-ago. 1861A. A. Procter Leg. & Lyr. 205, I have buried grief and sorrow In the depths of Long-ago. 1872Lever Ld. Kilgobbin ix. (1875) 56 Desultory thoughts..with ‘long-agoes’. 1889Chicago Advance 24 Jan., A book, the long-ago gift of his dead mother. 1896Hare Story of my Life I. Pref. 6 Time is always apt to paint the long-ago in fresh colours. 1896Spectator 7 Mar. 338 In spite of his wide severance from the ways of that long-ago time. 1900Pall Mall Mag. May 77 The long-ago silk gown of a long-ago lady. |