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   Alone (), a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. ān one, alone. See All, One, Lone.]
   1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.
   
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   Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge.
   
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   It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.
   
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   2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.
   
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   Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4.
   
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   The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.
   
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   3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.]
   
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   God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley.
   
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   4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.  Shak.
   
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   ☞ The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.
   
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   To let alone or  To leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.
   
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   Alone, adv. Solely; simply; exclusively.
   
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