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English
Etymology
From centuries + -long.
Adjective
centuries-long (not comparable)
- Lasting for centuries.
- Coordinate term: centurylong
1942, Harry Parker, Britain Afloat and Ashore: Pictures and Engravings of Our National Life and Achievements. (publication number twenty-one), London: The Print Collectors’ Club, , pages 20–21:No city in the world has a more varied history and interest, and in none can better be traced the centuries-long line of steady progress from barbarism to civilisation.
1942, Curt Ries, “The Betrayal of a Caste”, in The Self-Betrayed: Glory and Doom of the German Generals, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 213:For he had not only handed in his resignation as Chief of Staff; he had gone a step further. He had left the Army, given up his title of general. He had done something that had scarcely ever happened during the centuries-long history of the Prussian Army.
1989, David Freedberg, The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 153:In his great survey of the material, Lenz Kriss-Rettenbeck concluded that “there is probably no comparable form that enjoys the same structural consistency and provides more effectively valid a mode of signification, in terms of its centuries-long use in the most various cultures and language groups, at all social levels of the Catholic world, and at all conceivable aesthetic levels.”