Definition of Alne
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.
A*lone", adv. Solely; simply;
exclusively.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ALONE, adj. In bad company.
In contact, lo! the flint and steel,
By spark and flame, the thought reveal
That he the metal, she the stone,
Had cherished secretly alone.
Booley Fito
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solo; solitary;—applied to a person or thing.
- I can't ask for help because I am alone. That is, “I am alone” means nobody else is near.
- 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. Here, “bread alone” means bread and nothing else.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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