friendlessness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being friendless.

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  • noun The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun being without friends

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Examples

  • Longtime Beck-watchers said he has always made references to his faith journey, his conversion from Catholicism to Mormonism, his crediting God with saving him from drug and alcohol abuse, professional obscurity and "friendlessness."

    Glenn Beck may be unlikely leader for conservative Christians 2010

  • There might have been some chitchat with the waiter about ice or check-desires, but not nearly enough to fill those forgotten minutes of friendlessness and communication-freeness.

    Richard Laermer: Just Think 2008

  • Mr Dombey, in his friendlessness, inclined to the Major.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • You see where my pride is gone; remember I plead as a suppliant, a beggar — though one who may be one day a prince, a king! ay, and a prince now, a very Lucifer of pride to all except to you; to you a wretch who grovels at your feet, and cries, ‘Have mercy on me, on my loneliness, my homelessness, my friendlessness.’

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Who would counsel his son to undergo the countless risks of poor married life, to remove the beloved girl from comfort and competence, and subject her to debt, misery, privation, friendlessness, sickness, and the hundred gloomy consequences of the res angusta domi?

    The Virginians 2006

  • All his life he had secretly grieved over his friendlessness.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • The dreadful crushing of the animal spirits, the ever-prevailing sense of friendlessness and homelessness consequent on this state of things, began ere long to produce mortal effects on my constitution

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • But it could not be so gloomy in the kind sunlight as it was when lashed by the savage storm which we had seen it cowering under before; and at the station we lost all feeling of friendlessness in the welcome of the thronging guides and hotel touters.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • My own experience is very hawkish; having grown up in an environment full of school beatings, constant humiliation, and friendlessness, I felt as though I worked for every success I had.

    free free, set them free 2003

  • My own experience is very hawkish; having grown up in an environment full of school beatings, constant humiliation, and friendlessness, I felt as though I worked for every success I had.

    MMIV 2003

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