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countable and uncountable, plural drearinesses
The characteristic of being dreary. quotations examples
What tho’ the moon—the white moonShed all the splendour of her noon,Her smile is chilly—and her beam,In that time of dreariness, will seem(So like you gather in your breath)A portrait taken after death.
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems