Obs. Also 4 elangenes, 6 ellingness. [f. ELENGE + -NESS.] Loneliness, dreariness, misery.
c. 1320. Seuyn Sag. (W.), 1735. His seriaunts … of alangenes him undernome.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVI. liv. (Tollem. MS.). Jacinctus haþ virtu of comforte, and doþ awey elengenesse.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 7408. She had a … scrippe of faint distresse, That full was of elengenesse.
a. 1536. Hen. VIII., Lett., in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793), 147/2. The great ellingness that I find here since your departing.
