[f. ALONE + -NESS.]

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  1.  The quality or state of being alone or solitary; solitariness, solitude, loneliness.

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1382.  Wyclif, Joel ii. 3. After hym aloonenesse [1388 wildirness] of desert.

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1564.  Haward, Eutropius, VII. 74. Every manne had bewailed his owne private losse and alonenesse.

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1625.  Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar., 61 (T.). God being sibi solus … did communicate himself out of his Alonenesse euerlasting unto somewhat else.

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1675.  T. Brooks, Gold. Key, Wks. 1867, V. 588. Don’t talk of thy solitariness and aloneness.

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1866.  Miss Thackeray, in Cornh. Mag., Aug., 134. It was a sharp, sudden thorn of aloneness and utter forlornness, which stung her so keenly in her excited and eager state that two great tears came and stood in her eyes.

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1867.  J. Legge, Life Confucius, 44. The superior man is watchful over his aloneness.

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