Lornness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being lorn. countable, uncountable

    "The joys and sorrows, the loves and the lornnesses of young heiresses have furnished themes to novel-writers ever since heiresses or novelists have existed."

Example

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"The joys and sorrows, the loves and the lornnesses of young heiresses have furnished themes to novel-writers ever since heiresses or novelists have existed."

Etymology

From lorn + -ness.

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