forlong

From Middle English forlangen, equivalent to for- +‎ long. Cognate with Middle High German verlangen.

forlong (third-person singular simple present forlongs, present participle forlonging, simple past and past participle forlonged)

1. To fill with longing.
   • 2005, Swede Hastings, Creeping Shadows:

     Now certain shadows followed me. Forlonged memories move round From visions inside my head I see [...]

   • 2009, Carol Gilligan, Kyra:

     And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.

• forlonging

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forlong (third-person singular simple present forlongeth, present participle forlongende, simple past and past participle forlonged)

1. (transitive) To keep or continue longer; prolong.
   • 1496, Dives and Paupers:

     They haue leuer to gyue .xx. shellynges to forlonge the soules in payne all a yere.