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English
Etymology
From dogless + -ness.
Noun
doglessness (uncountable)
- The state of being without a dog.
1874, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Chapters on animals, page 19:If they had lived to threescore years and ten, man and dog might have travelled through life together, but as it is we must either have a succession of affections, or else, when the first is buried in its early grave, live in a chill condition of doglessness.
1891 November 25, “The Matchmaker”, in The Day, New London, CT, page 7:As for dogs not being able to think, anyone who can entertain such an idea deserves to live in "a chill condition of doglessness" to the end of his days.
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