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ˈdesolateness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being desolate; desertedness, dismal barrenness; cheerlessness, dreary misery.
a1626Bacon Wks. VI. 38 (L.) In so great discomfort it hath pleased God some ways to regard my desolateness. 1639Baker in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxliii. 5 A comfort to the desolateness of my heart. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xv. (1713) 135 The forlornness and desolateness of that forsaken Habitacle, the Body of a natural Fool. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam v. xxviii, The swift fall Of one so great and terrible of yore, To desolateness. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. xxx, He had so weary a sense of his desolateness. 1877H. A. Page De Quincey II. xix. 249 To face the desolateness of Wales. |