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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xix. 312 We ondettaþ..Þrignisse in Annisse efenspedelice, ond Annesse in þære Þrignesse.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 363 He sceal gelyfan on þære halgan þrynnysse & on soþre annysse [a1225 Lamb. annesse].

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 151 (MED) Fader and sune and hali gast on ða hali þrinnesse..is on soð godd in onnesse.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 179 Þis seid lackyng of multitude in him silf, with þis seid departyng or dyuersite fro oþire þingis, is in ech creature his oonesse or his vnyte.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. ii. 49 Our God is one, or rather very Onenesse, and meere vnitie.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. A5 An eternal Being, an infinite Onenesse.

a1681 J. Pordage Theologia Mystica (1683) 11 The Holy Trinity are one, and yet three in that oneness.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. vi The Science of the universal, having the ideas of oneness and allness as its two elements.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 584 Man of one species.—This oneness of species is sustained by the following considerations.

1963 T. Ware Orthodox Church ii. 31 Preserving a delicate balance between the threeness and the oneness in God, they gave full meaning to the classic summary of Trinitarian doctrine.

1991 C. Mansall Discover Astrol. ii. 19/1 [Man] is instinctively aware..of his intimate relationship with God, and as such [it] is the Prime Relationship containing the spirit of Oneness from which all emerges and to which all returns.

2000 Amer. Scholar Autumn 75 The recitation of the Sh'ma, the acknowledgment of God's oneness that Jews have voiced..since Moses brought the tablets of the law down from Sinai.

1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 10 The singularity, the oneness of this Pearl, teaches us..that..we have an absolute..Necessity..of finding..this one Pearl.

1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. v. 4 The thing itself being almost incredible in its oneness.

1994 K. Kelly Out of Control xxi. 414 Presumably life originated only once, so there was once only the first living organism of Adamlike oneness. Now there are uncounted legions.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 11 Me schal makie strengðe of annesse [a1250 Nero onnesse] of claðes..þet þe annesse wið uten bitacni þe annesse Of an luue & of an wil.

1657 R. Austen Spirituall Use of Orchard (new ed.) 194 To stand for Uniformity, or onenesse in the externall part of the worship of God..and for want thereof to breake off unity, love, and Communion with the people of God.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 586 All are so agreeably blended into a oneness of character.

1882 W. Huggins in 19th Cent. Aug. 274 The essential oneness of the cometary stuff with the gas composed of carbon and hydrogen.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 113 Where there is infinite variety, there is no interest in war. Oneness makes war, and the obsession of oneness.

1997 Spirit June 86/1 Deep inside each of us, at exactly the place where that interface between body and soul occurs, we are all connected or you could say are all one. And it's through this oneness that the miracle of beauty is happening.

2000 A. Naphitali Afrikan Holistic Theatre in C. Newland & K. Sesay IC3 186 A practice that looks at the central relationships and universal oneness of Afrikan art forms, whether performance, healing or social.

1611 W. Sclater Key (1629) 339 This onenesse..of God, is not numerall,..but hath reference, either to the vnchangablenesse of God, and his keeping one steddy, and vnuaried course in iustifying all.

1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 175 The physical and moral oneness of existence.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xv. 544 The numerical oneness or identity of the Soul at different times.

1990 Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar. 51/1 Studies of the ‘non-self’, of the oneness of sunyata and tathata (respectively, the Buddhist concepts of ‘emptiness’ and ‘suchness’).