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† ˈelengenesse Obs.
Also 4 elangenes, 6 ellingness.
[f. elenge + -ness.]
Loneliness, dreariness, misery.
c1320Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1735 His seriaunts..of alangenes him undernome. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. liv. (Tollem. MS.) Jacinctus haþ virtu of comforte, and doþ awey elengenesse. c1400Rom. Rose 7408 She had a..scrippe of faint distresse, That full was of elengenesse. a1536Hen. VIII Let. in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 147 The great ellingness that I find here since your departing. |