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alonelyadv.adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: all adv., only adv.; alone adj., -ly suffix2. Etymology: As adverb originally < all adv. + only adv.; in later use perhaps partly also alone adj. + -ly suffix2. With use as adjective compare only adj. Compare alone adv.Originally a phrase (with all adv. serving as an intensifier: compare alone adv., alone adj.), and often written as two words until the end of the 17th cent. The usual current pronunciation is consistent with the expected development of the initial vowel in an unstressed position, although the late survival of two-word forms suggests that pronunciation in line with that of all adv. persisted relatively late. The current pronunciation may therefore also reflect association with alone adj., adv., and n.: see further discussion at that entry. With the forms compare only adv. and only adj. and see discussion at those entries. A. adv. 1. Only and nothing (or no one) else; to the exclusion of all other people, things, etc.; and no other; exclusively, solely. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] 1307 in M. Sellers (1912) I. 181 (MED) That na maister take na apprentice..bot alanely ane. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. ii. 899 Nought aloonlyche þornes. c1400 (?c1380) l. 778 Al only þyself so stout and styf. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 4 Troweth not þat I wil tell ȝou all the townes & cytees..But all only summe contrees & most princypall stedes. c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in (1888) 10 346 Alle-onelye þou keþedest to him parfyte bileve. 1485 (Caxton) xx. xix. sig. cc vijv Alle the lordes were ful glad..sauf al only syre Gawayne. a1500 (?a1450) (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 49 He asked no thing with here, but alonly here bodie, and here clothing. 1543 T. Becon sig. D.vi Alonly walke before me, and be perfecte. 1577 H. Bull tr. M. Luther 220 Our life resteth wholy and alonely in the remission of sinnes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil 325 Was all this Train of Plots contriv'd, said she, All only to deceive unhappy me? a1382 (Douce 370) (1850) 2 Chron. xxiii. 6 Thei aloonly commen in, that ben halowed. 1447 O. Bokenham (Arun.) (1938) l. 2507 (MED) He is my mastyr & he aloonly tawt me. ?1483 W. Caxton tr. i. sig. bviiiv For many to gyder seen more clerely and knowen more thenne doth one allonelye. a1500 (?c1450) 49 Merlin, whiche is the wysest man that is in all the worlde, saf god al only. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) I. clxxix. f. ciiii London alonely excepted. 1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman (new ed.) iv. i. f. 105v The truth alonely amonge al thynges is priuileged. a1658 J. Durham (1675) 272 These very grounds will be found to plead for, and to be applicable to, the First day of the week alonely. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [adverb] > without addition a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. l. 133 (MED) Acis..Which hire ayeinward..Al only loveth and nomo. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 5 He hath lost all but Grece & þat lond he holt all only. a1500 (?a1450) (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 346 In the house all only of Ionathas he founde fire and watir. 1541 R. Barnes (1573) 227/2 The lambe hath alonely dyed for vs; The lambe hath alonely shed his bloud for vs; The lambe hath alonly redeemed vs. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso xvi. xlvii. 289 All only let me goe with thee. a1617 S. Hieron (1620) I. 13 The grand guide, whose directions are alonely to bee looked vnto. 1807 ‘Clericus’ xxvi. 269 If..the being made partakers of the kingdom of heaven, be alonely ascribed to the merits and death of Christ..can we ever expect to enter therein by a justification grounded upon our own personal merits? 1833 C. Lamb Convalescent in 76 The sole and single eye of distemper alonely fixed upon itself. 1876 F. K. Robinson Alleeanly, or Allonely, adv. solely, or without exception. the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adverb] > simply, only, or merely a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 6825 Ȝyue..nat allonely largely, But with loue. c1475 (?c1384) in J. H. Todd (1851) p. xxxii Not al oonly in defaut of cornys but in beestis & oþer good. 1484 W. Caxton tr. (1926) iii. 34 Not al only contrarye to the ordre and offyce of Chyualrye..but..also [etc.]. 1520 iii. f. 24/1 Beloved of God and man, and not alonely with good men, but evyll men also. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. D4v, in (rev. ed.) Where gentilitie is not alonely spotted, but in a maner couered and debased already with vnhonesty. 1611 W. Adams Let. 23 Oct. in A. Farrington (1991) I. 70 [N]ot I alonely lost what I had in the shipp, but the capten and all the company in gennerall. society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adverb] c1450 (?a1400) (BL Add.) (1935) l. 209 (MED) Þat ferthe lefe was lefte þan allan..allanly scho stode..and wepe þan for wa. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Gough) (1905) 32 The Emperour exilet hym [sc. John] alonly ynto þe yle of Pathmos. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart II. cxx. 344 And so rode but alonely with his page. 1552 (STC 16279) Communion Sicke sig. Q.vj In the tyme of plague..vpon special request of the diseased, the minister maye alonly communicate wyth hym. B. adj.†1. attributive. One and only; singular. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [adjective] a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. lxxxxiiiiv Isabell the allonly doughter & Chylde of Phylyppe le Beawe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1291/1 And this alonelie word was heard: Here comes the pearle of grace. 1604 §1 The Catholike Romaine faith, the all onely meane of saving our soules. 1612 G. Wither Prince Henries Obseq. in (1633) 303 The alonely comfort of his own. 1688 W. Scot ii. 78 The first of happy tydings on the Earth, Of our all only blessed Saviour's birth. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > incomparable, unparalleled, or unique 1567 J. Jewel 364 Your Highe, and alonely Bishop, and the Bishop of al Bishoppes. 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1316/1 Know yee therefore alonelie princesse. 1593 G. Harvey 14 Read him alone: that can schoole them all in their tearmes inuectiue, and teacheth a new-found Arte of confuting, his all-onely Arte. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [adjective] > special or private 1567 J. Jewel iv. ii. §3.387 The special, and alonely office of Loue, of thinges common to make thinges peculiare. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. lxxxxvv The allonely rule of the Lande restyd in the Quene & the sayde syr Roger. 1561 J. Heywood tr. Seneca ii. sig. E3 Howe greate ys myne allonely parte? a1622 H. Ainsworth Annot. Bk. Psalmes xxii. 37 in (1627) My alonely soule, which is one alone, solitary, and desolate. 1890 July 73/1 Tell me, be ye not wearied, alonely here so much? 1910 J. W. Lloyd 255 May we not suppose that God was alonely and is setting parts of himself, as individuals, free, that they may be united to him, not by force, but by love? 1997 S. Massey (2003) xii. 140 Mr. Randall said you left him alonely in Tokyo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  adv.adj.1307 |
