† high-loneadv.
Obsolete.
(Upright) by oneself or itself, without support. Apparently only in to go high-lone, to stand high-lone. Cf. a-high-lone adv.
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the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > [adverb]
high-lone1533
supportlessly1893
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] > by oneself
by oneself (himself, themselves, etc.)eOE
myself one (also alone)a1300
of oneselfc1450
sole1450
post alone1478
solely1495
high-lone1533
myselfc1540
lone1613
solus cum solo1742
on one's ownio1908
on one's Pat Malone1908
on one's lonely(-o)1919
on one's ownsome1921
on one's jack1931
on one's tod1934
1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xxv. f. 67v The ioyntes were so louse, that longe tyme I had moch adoo to stonde hilone.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 38 Then could Iuliet stande high lone. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iv. sig. H3v And when it [sc. an infant] once goes high-lone, takes it back.
1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Isa. xxiv. 4) 86 A sick man, so enfeebled that he cannot stand high-lone.
1745 T. Harris tr. B. de las Casas Popery & Slavery Display'd (ed. 4) 5 Pope Hildebrand taught it to go High-lone, and trample on the Necks of Emperors and Kings.
1760 G. Washington Diary 13 Mar. (1976) I. 253 So poor were they [sc. the Mares], and so much abusd had they been..that they were scarce able to go highlone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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