elengeness

Middle English

Noun

elengeness

1. loneliness; misery
   • ante 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in Walter William Skeat, editor, Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems‎^[1], 2nd (1899) edition, Oxford:

     She had a burdoun al of Thefte,
     That Gyle had yeve her of his yefte;
     And a scrippe of Fainte Distresse,
     That ful was of elengenesse
     And forth she walked sobrely:
     And False-Semblant saynt, ie vous die,
     [Had], as it were for such mistere,
     Don on the cope of a frere,
     With chere simple, and ful pitous;
     His looking was not disdeinous,
     Ne proud, but meke and ful pesible.

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