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[ adverb ] without any others being included or involved
Synonyms Examples "was entirely to blame" "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively" "did it solely for money" "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone" "a privilege granted only to him" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)It resembles , too , pictures such_as Du^rer and Bruegel did , in which all that looks at_first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary , the representation of a proverb , for_example , or a deadly_sin . (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)In this case , then , the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack . (Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)We should_like to re-emphasise the importance of stating results solely in_terms_of international units of TSH activity and of avoiding the re-introduction of biological units . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)Often he seems even to have been able to guess correctly , without the tracing motions , solely on the basis of qualitative differences among the blot like things which appeared in his visual experience . |
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