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English
Etymology
From onely + -ness.
Noun
oneliness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The state of being one or single.
1843, Henry Edward Manning, The Unity of the Church by Henry Edward Manning, page 80:If I may be allowed to use a word already forced by the poverty of our abstract language upon a well-known writer, I would say that the doctrine of unity contains the ideas both of oneliness, and of oneness.
1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:Wherefore it is manifest that such an idea of God as we have declared, including unity, oneliness, and singularity in it, is a thing which the ancient Atheists, under the times of paganism, were not unacquainted with, but principally directed their force against.
1882, Edward Arthur Litton, Introduction to Dogmatic Theology:It must be confessed that here the argument à posteriori fails us. Even the oneness, or rather 'Oneliness' of God cannot be thus inferred.
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