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▪ I. † alange, a. Obs.
Also alenge, -inge.
[A variant of elenge, OE. ǽlenge, lengthy, tedious, f. æ- intensive + lenge, secondary form of lang, long:—OTeut. *langjo-.]
Protracted, tedious, wearisome, dreary, lonely. Also, [by confusion with elelende, ellende, elend; cf. the confusion of -ende and -ing in pples.] strange, foreign.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 4269 In time of winter alange it is. c1386Chaucer Wife's T. 343 Pouerte is this, al-though it seme alenge [v.r. elenge, alenge—3, alinge] Possession that no wight wol chalenge. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 121 Her spirites..Thought that craft unlusty & alenge. 1440Promp. Parv., Alange, or straunge [1499 alyande] Extraneus, exoticus. c1515Compl. too late Maryed (Halliw.), Now am I out of this daunger so alenge.
▪ II. † aˈlange, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. adj.]
To make tedious, dreary, or lonely.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 4212 The leves fallen of the tre, Rein alangeth the cuntre. |