01 a. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.
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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.
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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.
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Sole; only; exclusive.[R.]“God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.” — Bentley.
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Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.
Phrases & compounds
To let alone —
to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.