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/ˈɛlɪnd͡ʒ/ · adjective
(Kent, Surrey, Sussex, dialectal, obsolete) Isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling..
ELlinge: Solitary, lonely, melancholy, farre from neighbours: q. elongatus. Suß. a Gallico Eſloigner. Ellende in the Ancient Saxon ſignifies procul, farre off, farre from.
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 mornin dan when he left it overnight.
[…] but when the sea is so ellinge, and you can't see far into the muddy waves for the white drift of foam-then any one used to such a sight begins to think whose boat will come home, or who may be missing before another sun rises.
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Ellinge means (Kent, Surrey, Sussex, dialectal, obsolete) Isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling..
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ELlinge: Solitary, lonely, melancholy, farre from neighbours: q. elongatus. Suß. a Gallico Eſloigner. Ellende in the Ancient Saxon ſignifies procul, farre off, farre from.
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