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ALONE

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 720 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALONE  . This

adjective or adverb requires no definition for its meaning of " by oneself " or " solitary "; but its etymological
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history, as simply a combination of the words " all and " one " is rather curious (compare the' Ger. allein) . " Lone " is merely a clipped form of the word, and so " lonely." The New
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English
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Dictionary traces the English word back to the
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year 1300 .

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