alone (alon)

and adv. [ It is not good that the man should be alone . Gen. ii. 18. He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone . Scott , Young Loch in var. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance Emerson, Society and Solitude. theyncert fires people to a 2. Only; to the exclusion of other persons or things; sole or solely: as, he alone remained. In this sense alone is sometimes used attributively before a noun. Man shall not live by bread alone . Luke iv. 4. It is not to rulers and statesmen alone that the science of government is important and useful. It is equally indispensable for every American citizen. Story , Misc. Writings, p. 624. Even one alone verse sometimes makes a perfect poeme. B. Jonson, Timber. The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and beautiful, Emerson , Art. IMG:content-0553.png:[blocks in formation] I am alone the villain of the earth. 41. Devoid; destitute. For bot he a wydowe was she and all one Of ony frend to whom she dorst hire mone. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 98. IMG:content-0554.png:[blocks in formation] Not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia. Acts xix. 26. In each of these examples only would now be considered better, though not alone for not only is in common use. Alone means unaccompanied: as, he stood alone. Only applies to that of which there is no other: as, an only son; adverbially, only this. And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Job i. 15. alonelyt (a-lōn'li), adv . and a. [ aloonly , alonly, usually separated, al only, all only, al onli, al oonly, etc.: al , all , adv.; only, adv. Cf. alone, allenarly. In mod. use abbrev. lonely , esp. as attrib. adj.] I. adv. Only; merely; singly. This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer . Farewell with him [the medical attendant] all that made sickne pompous-the spell that hushed the household, Lamb, Elia, p. 311. II. a. Exclusive; sole; only. alp II. n. One of the alopecoid or vulpine series of canine quadrupeds: as, “ alopecoids , or vulpine forms," W. H. Flower , Encyc. Brit., XV. 438.