Adjective

(en adjective)

By oneself, solitary.

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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18

*:It is not good that the man should be alone .

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Apart from, or exclusive of, others.

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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)

*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.

Considered separately.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

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Without equal.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author= Ian Traynor

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(lb) Unique; rare; matchless.

:(Shakespeare)

Adjective

(en adjective)

detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.

(of spouses) estranged; living apart but not divorced.