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Webster 1913 Edition
Solitariness
Sol′i-ta-ri-ness
,Noun.
Condition of being solitary.
Webster 1828 Edition
Solitariness
SOL'ITARINESS
,Noun.
2.
Solitude; loneliness; destitution of company or of animated beings; applied to place; as the solitariness of the country or of a wood.Definition 2024
solitariness
solitariness
English
Noun
solitariness (countable and uncountable, plural solitarinesses)
- The state or quality of being solitary.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.8:
- I saw a Deane of S. Hillarie of Poictiers, reduced by reason and the incommoditie of his melancholy to such a continuall solitarinesse, that when I entered into his chamber he had never removed one step out of it in two and twenty yeares before […].
- Bishop Joseph Hall
- So much as doing good is better than not doing evil, will I account Christian good fellowship better than an eremitish and melancholy solitariness.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.8:
Translations
state or quality of being solitary
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