Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… distinguishable in meaning from ‘solitary’. 2 People were alone, but this was a physical rather than emotional state. Samuel Johnson ’s Dictionary (1755) emphasised the physical dimensions of solitude: living a ‘lonely life’, being remote from … vocabulary. 4 2 . Diana Webb, Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages (London & New York: Continuum, 2007), p. xv. 3 . Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755), entry for ‘Solitude’. 4 . Fay Bound Alberti, A …
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