Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
onliness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The state of being one or single.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The state of being
one orsingle .
Etymologies
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onely + -ness
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Examples
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It might help you to see the poem "unbroken," in which case it reads: "l (a leaf falls) oneliness."
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The Stoics taught that God is _oneliness_ (Diogenes Laertius, "Lives of the Philosophers," bk.vii. ch. lxviii.); that he is _eternal_ and
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