Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LENGTH'Y, a.

Being long or moderately long; not short; not brief; applied mostly to moral subjects, as to discourses, writings, arguments, proceedings, &c.; as, a lengthy sermon; a lengthy dissertation; a lengthy detail. Lengthy periods. – Washington's Letter to Plater. No ministerial act in France, in matters of judicial cognizance is done without a proces verbal, in which the facts are stated amidst a great deal of lengthy formality, with a degree of minuteness, highly profitable to the verbalizing officers and to the revenue. – Am. Review, Ap. Oct. 1811. P S Murray has sent or will send a double copy of the Bride and Giaour; in the last one some lengthy additions; pray accept them according to old customs. – Lord Byron's Letter to Dr. Clarke, Dec. 13, 1813. Chalmers' Political Annals, in treating of South Carolina … is by no means as lengthy as Mr. Hewitt's History. – Drayton's View of South Carolina. These would be details too lengthy. – Jefferson.