Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective By oneself; alone. Used as a stage direction to a male character.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Alone: used chiefly in dramatic directions: as, enter the king solus. The feminine form is sola.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He turned round, and with the kind courteousness which sat so well on him, made me a bow and said, _Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solus_.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885
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It is face to face, “solus cum solo,” in all matters between man and his God.
For Good Friday 2010
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B minor Mass: Quoniam tu solus sanctus « Anglican Samizdat
B minor Mass: Quoniam tu solus sanctus « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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Volui scribere epistulam tibi, quia vere tu es solus animalis inanimatus in figura draconis repletus tomento qui scripsit commentaria et recessiones apud blogspot.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Volui scribere epistulam tibi, quia vere tu es solus animalis inanimatus in figura draconis repletus tomento qui scripsit commentaria et recessiones apud blogspot.
The Dragon's Mailbag 2007
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Romae extinxit, et omnes ubique per orbem terrae religiones, unum hoc studens ut solus deus coleretur.
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Necesse est cum insanientibus furere, nisi solus relinqueris.
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Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solus; nunquam minus otiosus, quam quum esset otiosus; never less solitary, than when he was alone, never more busy, than when he seemed to be most idle.
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Et Phillida solus habeto, Take her to you, God give you joy, sir.
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Judicatur is solus beatus apud eos, qui in praelio fuderit animam.
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