book-length

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Of adocument,composition, or otherentity: as long as abook; i.e.verylongorextensive.1956,University of Tennessee Studies in the Humanities‎[1], volumes1-6, page75:When he dedicated hisbook-lengthpoem Hesperia to a patronymically disguised but not entirely fictional lady, Richard Henry Wilde wrote that she had "advised me to attempt a poem of some length, in hopes that an occupation ...2006, James T. Costa,The Other Insect Societies, page667:While I feel badly perhaps contributing to the underappreciation of these arthropods, particularly in the realm of sociality, I take some comfort in the knowledge thatbook-lengthtreatments of some of these groups are under way.2007, Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Alan Velie (editors),Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature:Infrom Sand Creek, abook-lengthsequence of untitled short poems accompanied by prose fragments, Simon Ortiz attempts to document a massacre of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho by the U.S. cavalry in 1864 and the effects of this historical event on Native people in the author's time.

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