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Cardinal: one Ordinal: first Abbreviated ordinal: 1st Latinate ordinal: primary Reverse order ordinal: last Latinate reverse order ordinal: ultimate Adverbial: one time, once Multiplier: onefold Latinate multiplier: single Distributive: singly Germanic collective: onesome Collective of n parts: singlet, singleton Greek or Latinate collective: monad Greek collective prefix: mono- Latinate collective prefix: uni- Fractional: whole Elemental: singlet, singleton Greek prefix: proto- Number of musicians: solo Number of years: year

Etymology

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#SINGLY Category:English terms derived from Middle English#SINGLY senglely. Equivalent to single +‎ -lyCategory:English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)#SINGLY.

Pronunciation

Adverb

singly (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#SINGLY Category:English adverbs#SINGLY Category:English uncomparable adverbs#SINGLY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#SINGLY Category:Pages with entries#SINGLY Category:Pages with 1 entry#SINGLY

In a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter I, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:
  Singly, they are every one a representation or appearance of some quality, or other accident of a body without us, which is commonly called an object.
  Category:English terms with quotations#SINGLY
- 1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter X, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
  The cross, reared now above all other objects, and standing singly out against the sky, was greeted with a burst of delight; […]
  Category:English terms with quotations#SINGLY
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “13: How My Shore Adventure Began”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
  Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps […]
  Category:English terms with quotations#SINGLY
- 1906, Jack London, chapter XVIII, in Before Adam‎:
  They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
  Category:English terms with quotations#SINGLY
Individually; particularly; severally.
to make men singly and personally goodCategory:English terms with usage examples#SINGLY
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 211:
  Ursula saw that now Bella Watson's chance meetings with him had to be strategically and singly planned by Bella, whose wifely attentions to the bereaved man were markedly meaning.
  Category:English terms with quotations#SINGLY
Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed.
to attack another singlyCategory:English terms with usage examples#SINGLY
Honestly; sincerely; simply.
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#SINGLY) Singularly; peculiarly.