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adverb

Apart adv.

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. "Others apart sat on a hill retired." "The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself."

In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness." "Let Pleasure go, put Care apart."

In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

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Etymology of 'Apart'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apart" Quotes from Famous Books

... and helpful as men of the world to be easily dispensed with. James had, there can be no doubt, much reason to be discontented and dissatisfied, as almost all his predecessors had been, with the nobility of his kingdom. Apart from some of those young companions-in-arms who were delightful in the camp and field but useless in the council chamber, his state of mind would seem to have resembled more the modern mood which is represented by the word "bored" ...

— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant

... never opened except on Sundays or when the parson called, which instituted a sort of temporary Sunday, and the two small windows were kept shut and plugged as well as muffled always, with green paper blinds and cotton hangings. It was a thing apart from the rest of the house—a sort of family ghost-room: a chamber of horrors, seen ...

— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

... queen waved her wand, and silken couches were spread under the trees, and she and Cuglas sat on one apart from the others, and the courtiers took their ...

— The Golden Spears - And Other Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy

... of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... of the great common graves in which the dead would be buried. It would be little short of a mockery to have the burial service read over her, and had Arnold been consulted he would have preferred to lie beside her to being laid in a grave apart. ...

— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty

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