A*lone" , adv. Solely; simply;
exclusively.
A*lone" (&?;), a. [All + one. OE. al one all
allone, AS. ān 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.
&fist; 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.
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