I'm taking my hat off to you RKS

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> From: L. Eugene Arnold
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> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 12:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [psychiatry-research] Re: News: What Is Solitude?
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> "In that 'aloneness' is actually "all Oneness" (dictionary meaning of
> aloneness)"
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> What dictionary did you find that definition in, Ramesam?
> Not Webster's; I just checked.
>
> Gene
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>
> RKS:
> Oxford English Dictionary 3rd edition:
> aloneness: [f. alone+ness]
> 1. The quality or state of being alone or solitary; solitariness,
> solitude, loneliness.
>
> Quotations:
> 1382 Wyclif Joel ii. 3 After hym aloonenesse [1388 wildirness] of desert.
> 1564 Haward Eutropius vii. 74 Every manne had bewailed his owne private
> losse and alonenesse. 1625 Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar 61 (T.) God being
> sibi solus+did communicate himself out of his Alonenesse euerlasting unto
> somewhat else. 1675 T. Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 588 Don't talk of thy
> solitariness and aloneness. 1866 Cornh. Mag. Aug. 134 A sharp, sudden
> thorn of aloneness and utter forlornness. 1877 J. Legge Life Confucius 44
> Watchful over his aloneness.
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> Merriam-Webster:
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> Etymology:Middle English, from al all + one one
> Date:13th century
>
> 1 : separated from others : ISOLATED
> 2 : exclusive of anyone or anything else : ONLY
> 3 a : considered without reference to any other *the children alone would
> eat that much* b : INCOMPARABLE, UNIQUE <alone among their contemporaries
> in this respect>
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> Kind Regards
> Robert Karl Stonjek