Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cheerless; wretched; miserable; unhappy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.
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Examples
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His barn stood in a very _elenge_ lonesome place, a goodish bit from de house, and de Pharisees used to come dere a nights and thresh out some wheat and wuts for him, so dat de hep o 'threshed corn was ginnerly bigger in de morning dan what he left it overnight.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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+E+ to elenge, ne to excellent, ne to eernesful neiþ {er}.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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