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† high-lone, adv. Obs.
[An alteration of alone, of obscure origin. High prob. expresses degree or intensity; cf. lone.]
Quite alone, without support.
1597Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iii. 37 (Qo.) Then she could not stand high lone. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. iv, And when it [an infant] once goes high-lone, takes it back. 1602Middleton Burt ii. ii, When I could not stand a' high lone without I held a thing. 1760G. Washington Diary 13 Mar. (MS.), The Mares..so poor were they, and so much abusd had they been..that they were scarce able to go high⁓lone, much less to assist in the business of the Plantations. |