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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an individual or distinctive manner; as individuals; separately: as, apple-trees differ individually, but not specifically; all were individually summoned.
  • Indivisibly; incommunicably.
  • Personally; in an individual capacity, as distinguished from official or corporate capacity. See individual, a., 3.

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

  • adverb In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself.
  • adverb In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly.

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

  • adverb As individuals, separately, independently

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb apart from others

Etymologies

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individual +‎ -ly

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