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Prolongation

noun
1.
The act of prolonging something.  Synonyms: lengthening, perpetuation, protraction.
2.
Amount or degree or range to which something extends.  Synonyms: extension, lengthiness.
3.
The consequence of being lengthened in duration.  Synonyms: continuation, lengthiness, protraction.






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... (p. 152). The dome with its eight windows is likewise Turkish. The windows are lintelled and the cornice is of the typical Turkish form. The bema is almost square and is covered by a barrel vault formed by a prolongation of the eastern dome arch; the apse is lighted by a lofty triple window. By what is an exceptional arrangement, the lateral chapels are as lofty both on the interior and on the exterior as is the central apse, but they are entered by low doors. In the normal arrangement, ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen

... found us a house, of which we took all but the ground floor: the entresol was mine, the first floor was Madame d'Henin's, and that above it was for M. de Lally. It was near the cathedral, and still in a prolongation of Madame de Maurville's street, la Rue de ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... DEFENCE. In fortification, the face of a work receiving flank defence, together with its prolongation ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... these revolting excesses seldom appear except in seaports, and especially in New York. The interests of this great city are bound up to such a degree with those of the cotton States, that, until very lately, New York might have been considered as a prolongation of the South. We need not be surprised, therefore, to find some congregations there which are ruled by the prejudices of the South. Besides, even in New York, other churches protest with holy zeal, ...
— The Uprising of a Great People • Count Agenor de Gasparin

... in the revision was simple: they were above all concerned in the abolition of Article 45, which forbade Bonaparte's reelection and the prolongation of his term. Not less simple seemed to be the position of the republicans; they rejected all revision, seeing in that only a general conspiracy against the republic; as they disposed over more than one-fourth of the votes in the National Assembly, and, according to the Constitution, a ...
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx


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