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dreariness|ˈdrɪərɪnɪs|
[f. dreary a. + -ness.]
The quality or state or being dreary.
†1. Sadness, sorrowfulness, dolefulness. Obs. (exc. as influenced by 2: ‘desolate sadness’).
a1000Greg. Dial. MS. Hatt. 5 a, 8 (Bosw.) Gif he ne ᵹehulpe hire sarlican dreorinysse. c1340Cursor M. 22667 (Fairf.) For drerines þai salle be drad. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. iv. 8 Bowe doun to the pore thin ere without drerynesse. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3221 Drerynesse trembling and drede cristis threfolde Orisoune. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. iii. 197 He fand her lyeng..in dreirrines, lamentatioune, and mourneng sair. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. v, She looked with a sad dreariness in her young face at the lifeless objects around her.
2. a. Dismalness, desolateness, gloom. b. Oppressively uninteresting character.
1727Bailey vol. II., Dreeriness, dismalness. 1775Johnson Journ. W. Islands Wks. X. 354 Passing on through the dreariness of solitude. 1856Kane Grinnell Exp. I. 472 The dreariness of Greenland. 1886Athenæum 30 Oct. 562/3 The..incessant and..gratuitous dreariness of the story. |