Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Only; merely; singly.
  • Exclusive; sole; only.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Only; merely; singly.
  • adjective obsolete Exclusive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Exclusive; sole; only.
  • adverb Only; merely; singly.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English aloonly, alonly, al only, equivalent to alone +‎ -ly, or more strictly, all- +‎ one +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • But it is only through dialogue, through genuine human engagement, that one can really understand what alonely person's condition really is.

    Loneliness study: Help! I need somebody Darian Leader 2010

  • Iz beree skeeree, mah hubbie, he sai we should stop lukin an git a new kitteh, aw fink he worry dat ai so obsessd, but ai cannut stob finking him ow der aw ascered and alonely.

    i battle budy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Club, a lovelooking leapgirl, all all alonely, Gentia Gemma of the

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • This was all the answere the king of Armenia could get there, and so he dined with the king of England, and had as great honour as could bee deuised, and the king offered him many great gifts of golde and siluer, but he would take none though he had neede thereof, but alonely a ring to the value of a hundreth Frankes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • "Ay, but such things as that be alonely for folk as can pay for 'em, I reckon," said Kate, looking wistfully, first at the blue ear-rings, and then at the blessed relic.

    The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • I ne'er tarried to think if it were a great thing or a small: I thought neither of me nor of my doing, but alonely of our Hal, and how to set him in safety.

    Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • And if holy Church hath the words of God, and is alonely guided of His Spirit, then must it be an awful and deadly sin to gainsay her bidding.

    In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Ye must come at God neither by mass, nor by penance, nor by confessing, nor by alms-giving, but alonely by Christ.

    For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Upon this agreement the Frenchmen do invade the said town of Calais, alonely by the negligence of this captain.

    Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

  • This is a great and shameful manner of killing christian men, that the fathers, the mothers, the masters, and the dames shall not alonely kill themselves, but all theirs, and all that belongeth unto them: and so this way is a great number of christian lineage murdered and spoiled.

    Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

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