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ALONELY
Etymology
Adjective
alonely (comparative alonelier or more alonely, superlative aloneliest or most alonely)
(archaic) Exclusive; sole; only.
Adverb
alonely (comparative alonelier or more alonely, superlative aloneliest or most alonely)
(archaic) Only; merely; singly.
This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity.
Source: Wiktionary
A*lone"ly, adv.
Definition: Only; merely; singly. [Obs.] This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.
A*lone"ly, a.
Definition: Exclusive. [Obs.] Fabyan.
ALONE
A*lone", a. Etym: [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. an one, alone. See All, One, Lone.]
1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.
2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.
3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.] God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley.
4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Shak.
Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun. To let or leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.
A*lone", adv.
Definition: Solely; simply; exclusively.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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