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adverb

Singly adv.

Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.

Only; by one's self; alone. "Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man."

Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly. "At omber singly to decide their doom."

Honestly; sincerely; simply. (R.)

Singularly; peculiarly. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Singly" Quotes from Famous Books

... neither. He proved to be that rarest of types—the man who has no fear of his fellow-creatures, male or female, singly or in battalions. Our sex is so accustomed to squaring its shoulders, pulling down its waistcoat, and assuming an engaging expression as a preliminary to an encounter with the fair, that the spectacle of a man who enters a strange drawing-room and shakes hands quietly and naturally ...

— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay

... the thousand wondering dreams that evolved the elder gods, Pan, Cybele, Thor; all this waked again in the soul of the Anglo-Saxon penetrating the great forest. And it was intensified by the way he came,—singly, or with but wife and child, or at best in very small company, a mere handful. And the surrounding presences were not only of the spiritual world. Human enemies who were soon as well armed as he, quicker of foot and eye, more perfectly noiseless in their tread even than the wild beasts of the shadowy ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... these agree with Berkeley that spiritual beings alone are active, and active beings alone real, and that the being of the inactive consists in their being perceived. But while in Berkeley the objective ideas are impressed upon finite spirits by the Infinite Spirit from without and singly, with Leibnitz they appear as a fullness of germs, which God implanted together in the monads at the beginning, and which the individual develops into consciousness, and with Fichte they become the unconscious productions of the Absolute Ego acting in ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

... submarine glimpses I saw spaces free from seaweed on which hundreds of tall polyps were growing, some singly, others in small tufts. The solitary individuals rise three or four inches by a nearly straight stalk, surmounted by a many-tentacled head. This droops gracefully to one side and the general effect is that of a bed of rose-coloured flowers. From the heads hang grape-like masses, ...

— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... bad fortune, seldom comes singly, and besides recovering his own property, Kit finds himself the favorite and presumed heir of Henry Miller, the wealthy Californian, who has taken up his home with our hero. Last summer they took a trip to California, and ...

— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.

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