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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Alone; singly.
  • adverb Entirely; exclusively.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Singly; alone; only; without another: as, to rest a cause solely on one argument.
  • Completely; wholly; altogether.

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

  • adverb Singly; alone; only; without another.

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

  • adverb Alone; exclusively.

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

  • adverb without any others being included or involved

Etymologies

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sole +‎ -ly

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