Obs. [OE. án-nesse, preserved in north. dial., while in south. it became on-nesse. Obs. c. 1300, and formed anew as ONENESS in 17th c.]
1. Oneness, unity.
c. 885. K. Ælfred, Bæda, iv. 17 (Bosw.). We andettaþ þrýnesse in ánnesse, and ánnesse on þære þrýnesse.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 99. He scal ileafan on þa halȝa þreomnesse, and on soðre annesse.
2. Loneliness, solitude.
a. 1000. Guthlac, iii. (Bosw.). Annys þæs wéstenes.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter cii. 7. Like am I made to pellicane of annesse. Ibid., lv. 8. In anes I was wonand.
3. Oneness of kind, sameness; oneness of mind, concord, agreement.
1014. O. E. Chron. Gewearð him and þam folce on Lindesiʓe anes.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 93. Mid þere annesse and sibsumnesse þet heo sculen þolien.
[c. 1230. Ancr. R., 12. Me schal makien strencðe of onnesse of cloþes … þet te onnesse wiðuten bitocnie þe onnesse of o luue & of o wil.]
