goneness

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I wasn't in a temper anymore--and it left a dreadful sort of goneness, too.

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  1. A faint or sinking sensation; faintness: as, a feeling of goneness. [Colloquial] I … excused myself upon the plea that I had no appetite so early in the morning. “Ah,”; said Mrs. Bent, “just like you was, cousin 'Mandy Jane-a gonesses.” Atlantic Monthly, LIII. 638.

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  • The 'goneness' and other unpleasant sensations referred to the pit of the stomach may be much relieved by wearing a well-made spice-plaster over the stomach, or binding there a bag of gum camphor; or if these fail, an opium plaster will hardly fail to be of service. —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
  • You may feel a feeling of faintness, all-goneness and an irresistible craving for food. —  The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga
  • "Let's get out of here My goneness is in my knees," Walter Perkins informed them Either place is bad enough," returned Ned Do you think it safe for us to leave here now?" —  The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks Or, the Secret of Ruby Mountain
  • His very thraldom to the habit seemed an improbable, grotesque dream, which some morning would dissipate, but as a matter of experience each morning brought such a profound sinking and "goneness" that his will-power shrivelled like a paper barricade before the scorching intensity of his desire. —  Without a Home
  • No sooner has he determined to yield to one than a new object of admiration makes him repent the precipitation of his judgment And all the other foreigners were in the like case of "goneness." —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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