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Definition of Solely
1. Adverb. Without any others being included or involved. "A privilege granted only to him"
Definition of Solely
1. adv. Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.
Definition of Solely
1. Adverb. Alone; exclusively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Solely
1. singly [adv] - See also: singly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solely
Literary usage of Solely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"The negligence alleged in the complaint consisted solely in using a defective tank
... The doctrine that "the thing speaks for itself" relates solely to the ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"GOD CONTRADISTINGUISHED FROM IDOLS, THAT HE MAT BE solely AND SUPREMELY WORSHIPPED.
WE said, at the beginning, that the knowledge of God consists not in ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Such films are so thin and light that their weight hardly distorts them at all,
and the positions they assume are due almost solely to the surface tension. ..."
4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"... I made the lion hold an axe, with the field of the scutcheon quartered ; and
I put the axe in solely that I might not be unmindful to revenge him. LI. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"... account he accepted the post offered him solely to prevent Vane and his party
from compassing the overthrow of magistracy and ministry which the ..."
6. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"... Bade—His Artifice in Trilby—In Jim the Penman—His Wolsey's Falseness—We Must
Draw Our Interpretation solely from the Author's Lines—Tree's Shylock Saved ..."
7. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"His medical writings consisted solely of memoirs, of which the most important
were ' On the Human Placenta ' (' London Med. Gazette,' 1848, &c. ; reprinted ..."
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