goneness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of goneness
Example Sentences
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Why are you so happy about it now when you are so sad in his shirt, in his office, in his goneness?
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
“I have a goneness here that nothing except a hot breakfast will satisfy.”
From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee
In an hour the weaker stomachs will have what they call 'a goneness.'
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various
Venice or Nantucket—I can hardly say which is more dream-like or alluring, or sad with the goneness of its glory….
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Comfort, Will Levington
It may be a sense of fulness or tightness, or a feeling of distention or weight, or again, a feeling of emptiness, goneness or sinking.
From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
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