A‐lone″ (�), a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. ān 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.
God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Bentley.
4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Shak.
☞ The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.
Tolet or leavealone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.