"forlong" meaning in English

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          "word": "forlonging"
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          "ref": "2005, Swede Hastings, Creeping Shadows",
          "text": "Now certain shadows followed me. Forlonged memories move round From visions inside my head I see [...]",
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          "ref": "2009, Carol Gilligan, Kyra",
          "text": "And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.",
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        "To fill with longing."
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          "ref": "1857, Robert Conger Pell, Milledulcia",
          "text": "Again, Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy work, is: Printed oner sea, in Europe, within two forlongs of a Bouncing Priest, at the Cost and Charges of Martin Marprelate, Gent, 1589.",
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          "ref": "1881, Plutarchus, Plutarch's Lives, tr., with notes and a mem. by J. and W. Langhorne",
          "text": "Besides, he divided all the road into miles, of near eight forlongs each, and set up pillars of stone to mark the divisions.",
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          "ref": "1971, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of the Close Rolls ...: Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 44, page 295",
          "text": "A parcel of land in 'Wodeforlonge' containing 1 acre lying in the upper forlong of that field between land of the prioress called 'Candalescroftes' sometime of Robert Adelm* and land sometime of William Barnevyle and extending lengthwise from land called the 'Menecroft' to land of said William towards Lyddynges water.",
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        "(obsolete) Alternative form of furlong"
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          "text": "And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.",
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