Alone
alone (?), a. (All + one.OE. al one all allone, AS. an one, alone. See
All, One, Lone.) 1. Quite by
ones 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.
f 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.
alone , adv. Solely; simply;exclusively.
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