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singly, adv.|ˈsɪŋglɪ|
Forms: 4 senglely, 5 syngnlelie, 6 singlely; 4 sengeley, -ly, -(l)lic, 5 sengeliche; 4 singelli, 6 singilly, Sc. singalie; 4 sengli, 5 senglyche, 6– singly.
[f. single a. + -ly2, with later contraction as in simply, etc.]
1. a. As a single thing or person; apart from others or a number; by its (her, him, one) self; separately.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxl[i]. 11 Sengli I am til I forthfare. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6081 Let vs senglely a-wey fare. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. ix. (1868) 85 Þei ne mowe ȝeuen but o þing senglely of alle þat men seken. c1440Alph. Tales 463 Þe same iij hostis at sho had had away syngnlelie, ilkone be þer one, sho broght þaim agayn in hur byll. a1555Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 353 Fearing..lest while singly I have to answer to so many [etc.]. 1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 70 If there be more Gods, than one, then singlely and apart they must needs haue lesse strength. 1649Davenant Love & Hon. v. iii, And wish some man that boasts your masters bloud Were singly here to undergoe their fate. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 98 He is greater then his subjects singly and apart. 1717Prior Alma iii. 118 Mingl'd with the neighb'ring Herd, She slights what erst She singly fear'd. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 310 The fruit..grows singly and not in clusters. 1826Lamb Pop. Fallacies xiii, The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxxxvi. 2 Each point singly 'tis easy to grant.
b. Without the aid or support of others; unaided, unassisted, single-handed.
1608Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. iii. 247 Hee must fight singly to morrow with Hector. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. iv. Wks. 1874 IV. 73 Singlie of my selfe I will oppose all danger. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 173 He was not able to cope with him singly. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 268 Great Ulysses shall suppress these harms, Ulysses singly, or all Greece in arms. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 199 Such was her strength.., that no enemy could singly withstand her.
2.
†a. Simply; without any more. Obs.
a1400Pistill of Susan 196 Nou is Susan in sale, sengeliche arayed, In a selken schert, with scholdres wel schene. 1579Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 127 The said Capitane being in the menetyme singalie accumpanyit with ane servand.
†b. Slightly, poorly, ineffectively. Obs.—1
1548Patten Exped. Scotl. L v b, Their crosses wear so narrowe and so singly set on, that a puff of wynde might haue blowen them from their brestes.
c. Solely, only; merely. Now rare or Obs.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 263 Neither was it singly Canitius's treachery, which gave the Roman General this confidence. 1686Burnet Trav. iv. (1750) 177 For if the Pope derives anything from St. Peter, all that is singly in himself. 1740Chesterfield Lett. c. (1792) I. 279 People do not improve, singly, by travelling, but by the observations they make. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 222 Sir Toby Matthew's title to a place in this work depends singly upon a letter from the Duchess of Buckingham to the Duke. 1795Horsley Serm. (ed. 2) 235 St. Peter upon this occasion spoke singly for himself.
†3. Sincerely, truly, honestly. Obs.
1526Tindale N.T. To Rdr., My Conscience beareth me recorde, that of a pure entent, singilly and faythfully I have interpreted itt. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. lxxxiii. 212 If your Lordship and others with you..set yourselves singly to seek the Lord and His face.
4. Comb., as singly-charged, singly-read, singly-refractive, singly-seated.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 320 Inquiring..whether it were the apocryphal scripture, or the more canonical?.. The singly-read, or that of various readings? 1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit., Abr. Petit. Justice 86 Sufficient..should be the power of the singly-seated absolutist. 1879Rutley Stud. Rocks x. 115 A singly-refractive substance containing fixed bubbles also occurs in some sodalite. 1924Phil. Mag. XLVII. 282 The number of particles due to doubly-charged, singly-charged, and neutral helium atoms..varied in number over..a wide range. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. v. 176, hv may be taken as the ionization potential of an ion (i.e. for a singly-charged positive ion, the second ionization potential of the element, and for a singly-charged negative ion, the electron affinity of the element). |