poet. [f. LONELY + -HOOD.] Loneliness.
1830. Scott, Doom Devorgoil, I. i. That fell Chief … roams through his empty halls, And mourns their wasteness and their lonelihood.
1839. Bailey, Festus, iii. (1848), 19. Yon … star … Making itself a lonelihood of light.
1849. A. J. Symington, Harebell Chimes, 179. The myriad stars But make us feel our lonelihood the more.
