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German
Etymology
By surface analysis, zeit + Leben + -s.
Pronunciation
Adverb
zeitlebens
- (chiefly literary) all of one’s life; throughout one’s life (now usually referring to a deceased person)
Er hat sich zeitlebens für unterdrückte Völker eingesetzt.- He was a champion of oppressed peoples all his life.
2022 December 20, Ulrich Gutmair, “Nachruf auf Sänger Terry Hall: Der Junge mit den traurigen Augen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:Zeitlebens litt Hall unter Depressionen, seine Selbstmedikation war Alkohol. So erklärten sich die traurigen Augen von Terry Hall.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading
- “zeitlebens” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “zeitlebens” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon