Lornness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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