英和和英

名詞

doglessness (uncountable)

1. The state of being without a dog.
   • 1874, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Chapters on animals, page 19:

     If they had lived to threescore years and ten, man and dog might have travelled through life together, but as it is we must either have a succession of affections, or else, when the first is buried in its early grave, live in a chill condition of doglessness.

   • 1891 November 25, “The Matchmaker”, in The Day, New London, CT, page 7:

     As for dogs not being able to think, anyone who can entertain such an idea deserves to live in "a chill condition of doglessness" to the end of his days.

アナグラム

• godlessness