Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Loss (-es)
loss (-es), n. [OE los, to break up army ranks, dissolution.]
- Deprivation; failure to keep.
- Relinquishment.
- Casualty; temporary dispossession.
- Privation; [fig.] trial; tribulation.
- Disorientation; release of control; [fig.] obscurity.
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