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  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.
  
              Alone on a wide, wide sea.            --Coleridge.
  
              It is not good that the man should be alone. --Gen.
                                                    ii. 18.
  
     2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or
        any one else; without a sharer; only.
  
              Man shall not live by bread alone.    --Luke iv. 4.
  
              The citizens alone should be at the expense.
                                                    --Franklin.
  
     3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.]
  
              God, by whose alone power and conversation we all
              live, and move, and have our being.   --Bentley.
  
     4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. --Shak.
  
     Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.
  
     To let or leave alone, to abstain from interfering with
        or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.