a. rare. [f. LENGTH sb. + -SOME.] Lengthy. Hence Lengthsomeness.
1836. in Fraser’s Mag. (1837), XV. 611. We have here the fanatic Newton’s lengthsome letters.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, IV. iv. 21. This music of the Alleluia at the gradual, in losing its lengthsomeness, also lost its name.
