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ellenge

ellenge is the alternative form of ellinge.

Meaning of ellinge

Adjective

ellinge (comparative more ellinge, superlative most ellinge)

  1. (Kent, dialectal, obsolete, Sussex) 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.[1674, John Ray, “[South and East Countrey Words.]”, in A Collection of English Words. Not Generally Used, with Their Significations and Original, […], London: […] H. Bruges for Tho[mas] Burrell […]...

Forms of ellenge

comparativemore ellenge
superlativemost ellenge

Questions about ellenge

What is ellenge the alternative form of?
Ellenge is the alternative form of ellinge.

Words near ellenge in the dictionary

  1. Ellenburgs
  2. Ellendale
  3. Ellender
  4. Ellenders
  5. Ellenesque
  6. ellenge
  7. Ellenor
  8. Ellensburg
  9. Ellensohn
  10. Ellenwood
  11. Ellenwoods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ellenge (page history and authors); ellinge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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