lifeday
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From Middle English lif-day; equivalent to life + day.
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lifeday (plural lifedays)
- (now rare, archaic) A day of someone's life; chiefly in plural: a lifetime. [from 9th c.]
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:
- For loth in his lifdayes · for likyng of drynke / Dede bi his douȝtres · þat þe deuel lyked.
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