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onliness Now rare.|ˈəʊnlɪnɪs|
Forms: see only.
[f. only a. + -ness.]
†1. The fact or condition of being alone; solitariness, solitude. Obs.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 5 Noghte emange many bot in anelynes. 1435Misyn Fire of Love 30 Onelynes is nedfull with-outen noys & bodily songe. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xl, It..secheth onelynes of body: for that moche helpeth to onelynes of the soule. 1611Cotgr., Vnisson, an vnison..an onelynesse, or lonelynesse.
2. The fact or character of being the only one of its kind; singleness, singularity, uniqueness.
1633D. R[ogers] Treat. Sacram. i. 18 Shee hath darkned the Doctrine of the Covenant, the freedome and onelinesse of it. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §10. 207 It evidently appears that there can be but one such being, and that Μόνωσις, unity, oneliness or singularity is essential to it. 1682Norris Hierocles Pref. 23 They acknowledg'd God in all his glorious attributes, that of his unity or oneliness not excepted. 1863H. Allon Mem. J. Sherman 339 It cannot be controlled by the absolute authority of the first..its onliness renders the second impossible. |