livelong

[ liv-lawng, -long ]

/ ˈlɪvˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋ /

(of time) whole or entire, especially when tediously long, slow in passing, etc.: We picked apples the livelong day.

Origin of livelong

1350–1400; alteration (by association with live¹) of earlier leeve long, Middle English leve longe dear long. See lief, long¹

lifelong livelong

Now that you speak of it, I heard Mason say't they was up an' movin' round at the doctor's that livelong night!

The Last Stroke |Lawrence L. Lynch
Indeed, there was no one else to whom she could talk the livelong day.

Little Alice's Palace |Anonymous
In vain she waited the livelong night; no Dermot came back to her.

The Heir of Kilfinnan |W.H.G. Kingston
You can paint to yourself there the livelong day, with no more fear of intrusion than if you were out yonder at the light-ship.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 |Various

Terrors shall bow thee down the livelong day, in the Jotuns' courts.

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson |Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

livelong

/ (ˈlɪvˌlɒŋ) /

(of time) long or seemingly long, esp in a tedious way (esp in the phrase all the livelong day)

whole; entire

British another name for orpine