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uˈniquely, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. Exclusively, solely; only.
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 13 It is a picture uniquely Greek, to have a person of his rank in life giving such a debtor and creditor account of his intellectual pleasures as Dicæopolis does. 1893Saltus Mme. Sapphira 182 She had married him uniquely to go into society. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 28 Sept. 220/1 That distinction he can still boast to be his uniquely.
b. By itself alone; separately.
1885C. Leudesdorf Cremona's Proj. Geom. 43 Therefore D1 must coincide with D′, since the three points A′B′C′ determine uniquely the fourth point which forms with them a harmonic range.
2. To a unique degree or extent; so as to be unique; singularly, especially, pre-eminently.
1846Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 345, I sent you a uniquely laudatory epistle. 1881H. W. Nicholson From Sword to Share vii. 41 The climate is simply and uniquely perfect. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 310 The uniquely⁓shaped and quaintly-coloured furniture. |