Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableThe state of being one or single.
It must be confessed that here the argument à posteriori fails us. Even the oneness, or rather 'Oneliness' of God cannot be thus inferred.
1882, Edward Arthur Litton, Introduction to Dogmatic Theology2 more examples
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.
1843, Henry Edward Manning, The Unity of the Church by Henry Edward Manning, page 80Wherefore 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.
1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
Origin
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