Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being sole, alone, or unconnected with others; singleness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.
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- noun The quality of being
sole ;unity ,singleness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She could love her friends to distraction; she could give her time and strength and thought to them unreservedly; but in return she demanded a soleness of affection which should match her own.
Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen Anna Chapin Ray 1905
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Not even indignation, or the desire of revenge, interfere with its soleness and intensity.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827
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Now the Apostle, maintaining the true sense of the Lord's saying, I and the Father are one [939], whilst He asserts that Both are One, signifies that Both are One not after the manner of the soleness of a single being, but in the unity of the Spirit; for one God the Father and one Christ the Lord, since Each is both Lord and God, do not yet admit in our creed either two Gods or two Lords.
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