What's the difference between livelong and orpin?

Livelong


Definition:

  • (a.) Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
  • (a.) Lasting; durable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Had to file, had to file, but I couldn't – a fierce domineering fatigue had taken hold of every limb, and I went to sleep at 5pm and slept the livelong dream-free night, hoping the morning would bring difference.
  • (2) High altitude, cold climate determining a restricted assortiment of cultivated plants, the successive production of vegetal and animal food on the same soil for livelong periods and several generations, especially in isolated rural areas, seem to represent gastric cancer risk factors.

Orpin


Definition:

  • (n.) A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
  • (n.) The orpine.

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