Obs. Also alenge, -inge. [A variant of ELENGE, OE. ǽlenge, lengthy, tedious, f. Æ- intensive + lenge, secondary form of lang, long:—OTeut. *langjo-.] Protracted, tedious, wearisome, dreary, lonely. Also, [by confusion with elelende, ellende, ELEND; cf. the confusion of -ende and -ing in pples.] Strange, foreign.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 4269. In time of winter alange it is.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Wife’s T., 343. Pouerte is this, al-though it seme alenge [v.r. elenge, alenge–3, alinge] Possession that no wight wol chalenge.
a. 1420. Occleve, De Reg. Princ., 121. Her spirites … Thought that craft unlusty & alenge.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., Alange, or straunge (1499 alyande) Extraneus, exoticus.
c. 1515. Compl. too late Maryed (Halliw.). Now am I out of this daunger so alenge.
