Meanings
- not comparableIn a solitary manner; alone.
In a winter coat and a hat with thick wool lining, Mr. [Piotr] Anderszewski walks solitarily along snow-covered train tracks at a railroad station, as we hear his reflections in a voice-over, in English.
2009 July 31, Anthony Tommasini, “An ear for Mozart, a taste for paradox”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 20221 more example
[H]e began to retire himſelf to his Chamber to pray for, and pity them [his relations]; and alſo to condole his own miſery; he would alſo walk ſolitarily in the Fields, ſometimes reading, and ſometimes praying: and thus for ſome days he ſpent his time.
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 4Synonyms: alone, by one's lonesome, by oneself, isolatedly, lonelily, on one's bill, on one's lonesome, on one's tod
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adverbIn a solitary manner; alone.
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