- To leave alone
- Alone A*lone", a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. [=a]n
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. [1913 Webster]
It is not good that the man should be alone. --Gen. ii. 18. [1913 Webster]
2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. [1913 Webster]
Man shall not live by bread alone. --Luke iv. 4. [1913 Webster]
The citizens alone should be at the expense. --Franklin. [1913 Webster]
3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.] [1913 Webster]
God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun. [1913 Webster]
{To let alone} or {To leave alone}, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
