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solitarily, adv.|ˈsɒlɪtərɪlɪ|
Forms: 5–6 solytaryly, 6 solytarily, sol(l)itaryly, solitarilie; 5– solitarily.
[f. solitary a. + -ly2.]
In a solitary manner.
1. In solitude; alone; without company.
1451J. Capgrave Life St. Aug. 23 Because þat al his desire was for to prey and study solitarily. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 423/2 For as moche that I desyre to lede my lyf solytaryly. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 215 A secte of men whiche liued solytarily in the desertes. 1588Greene Perimedes 35 As he sollemnly and sollitaryly walked. c1630Risdon Surv. of Devon §329 (1810) 339 St. Ann's Chapel is solitarily situated. 1698S. Sewall Diary 9 Feb., Coach stood by the way here and there and mov'd solitarily. 1833Westm. Rev. XVIII. 324 They drink as they smoke, solitarily, and without any reference to social enjoyment. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon II. 33 Another nearly allied but much larger species..sometimes excavates its mine solitarily on sand-banks.
2. Apart or distinct from others; singly, solely.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 118 That it could not be David solitarily..appeareth to bee plaine. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xliv. 350 To understand..this text, we are not to consider it solitarily, but jointly with the words precedent, and subsequent. 1677Plot Oxfordshire 200 After what concerns women solitarily consider'd,..come we next to treat of things..that concern women and men joyntly. 1875Whitney Life Lang. viii. 151 Phonetic changes are especially likely to be thus general, instead of solitarily individual. |
