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adverb
1.
And nothing more.  Synonyms: but, just, merely, simply.  "It is simply a matter of time" , "Just a scratch" , "He was only a child" , "Hopes that last but a moment"
2.
Without any others being included or involved.  Synonyms: alone, entirely, exclusively, solely.  "A school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children" , "He works for Mr. Smith exclusively" , "Did it solely for money" , "The burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone" , "A privilege granted only to him"
3.
With nevertheless the final result.  "We won only to lose again in the next round"
4.
In the final outcome.
5.
Except that.
6.
Never except when.  Synonyms: only if, only when.
7.
As recently as.
adjective
1.
Being the only one; single and isolated from others.  Synonyms: lone, lonesome, sole, solitary.  "A lonesome pine" , "An only child" , "The sole heir" , "The sole example" , "A solitary instance of cowardice" , "A solitary speck in the sky"
2.
Exclusive of anyone or anything else.  Synonym: alone.  "Cannot live by bread alone" , "I'll have this car and this car only"



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"Only" Quotes from Famous Books



... will retrieve books; a further operating assumption is that standard interfaces will be used as much as possible, where standards can be put in place, because CLASS considers this retrieval software a library application and would like to be able to look at material not only at ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... I lived for many years, prophesying as the Great Spirit revealed the future to me, and my prophecies always came true. I foretold poor harvests, and the issues of our wars. Only once before the last prophecy I made was my word doubted, and then unbelief was born in the minds of many of the men. I spoke the words of truth then, but when I said we should, in time, vanish from this country, ...
— Old Mission Stories of California • Charles Franklin Carter

... commendable, and a feature only a few years old, that the principal morning and evening papers should take up one after another of philanthropic institutions, and even of individual cases, and advocate them vigorously, while they spare no wrong from censure, and freely discuss remedies, ...
— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... week. While there the debate took place on the Registration Bill, carried by a majority of only three, by the defection of Howick and Charles Wood, which was caused, as is said, entirely by the influence of Lord Grey, who is always out of humour with the Government, glad to give them a knock, though ostensibly their ...
— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... be derived from 2 and 3, while 6 and 9 show no visible trace of kinship with 1 and 4. In Mohican, on the other hand, 6 and 9 seem to be derived from 1 and 4, while 7 and 8 have little or no claim to relationship with 2 and 3. In some scales a single word only is found in the second quinate to indicate that 5 was originally the base on which the system rested. It is hardly to be doubted, even, that change might affect each and every one of the numerals from 5 to 10 or 6 to 9, so that a dependence which might once have ...
— The Number Concept - Its Origin and Development • Levi Leonard Conant


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