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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a lengthy or prolix manner
Example:
she talked at length about the problem
Synonyms:
at length; lengthily
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Context examples:
His enquiries, however, produced at length an account of the scene she had been engaged in there, soon after his leaving the place.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
At length, after a short pause, Miss Crawford began with, “So you are to be a clergyman, Mr. Bertram. This is rather a surprise to me.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
At length Lucy exclaimed with a deep sigh, I believe it would be the wisest way to put an end to the business at once by dissolving the engagement.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Each day he made it a point to caress and pet White Fang, and to do it at length.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Much against her will, Jo at length consented to sacrifice a day to Mrs. Grundy, and help her sister through what she regarded as 'a nonsensical business'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At length Steerforth, becoming gay and talkative in a moment, as he could become anything he liked at any moment, pulled me by the arm: Find a voice, David.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
