loneness
- a word derived from lone.
Example Sentences
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Radtke conveys loneliness as a societal problem but also shows the extreme personal toll it can have on someone and how, the deeper into loneness you fall, the harder it is to come out.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
Give not your self to loneness, and those graces Hid from the eyes of men, that were intended To live amongst us swains.
From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis
I was about to say, that there are times, When the most frank and sociable man May surfeit on most loved society, Preferring loneness rather— Mrs. F. To my company— Kath.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles
In keeping with the whole sad story seemed the gloom of the forest, the loneness of the marsh, and the surge of the waves upon the desolate shore.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.
Who walks thro his world in loneness lifts A soul that is sorrow-rife.
From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young
