solitarilyadv.
/ˈsɒlɪtərɪli/ In a solitary manner.
1. In solitude; alone; without company.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adverb]
alonelyc1450
solitarilyc1450
lonesomely1771
lonelily1850
by (one's) lee-lone1887
by (or on) one's lonesome1899
on one's ace1903
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 23 Because þat al his desire was for to prey and study solitarily.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 423/2 For as moche that I desyre to lede my lyf solytaryly.
1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 181v A secte of men whiche liued solytarily in the desertes.
1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. F2 As he sollemnly & sollitaryly walked.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §329 339 St. Ann's Chapel is solitarily situated.
1698 S. Sewall Diary 9 Feb. (1973) I. 387 Coach stood by the way here and there and mov'd solitarily.
1833 Westm. Rev. 18 324 They drink as they smoke, solitarily, and without any reference to social enjoyment.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. i. 33 Another nearly allied but much larger species..sometimes excavates its mine solitarily on sand-banks.
2. Apart or distinct from others; singly, solely.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb]
singlya1300
alonely1307
singularlya1340
by oddc1480
solely1582
solitarilya1641
uniquely1831
tout seul1926
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 118 That it could not be David solitarily..appeareth to bee plaine.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xliv. 350 To understand..this text, we are not to consider it solitarily, but jointly with the words precedent, and subsequent.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 200 After what concerns women solitarily consider'd,..come we next to treat of things..that concern women and men joyntly.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. viii. 151 Phonetic changes are especially likely to be thus general, instead of solitarily individual.
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