Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Lone
lone, adj. [see alone, adv.]
- Single; unwedded; not married; without a bride; having no helpmeet; (see Genesis 2:18).
- Isolated; unaccompanied; unfrequented; apart from others.
- Widowed; forsaken; desolate because of her husband's death.
- Singular; particular; specific; [fig.] seldom read; [kenning “lone Orthography”] epitaph; individual gravestone inscription in a cemetery or an abandoned battlefield.
- Exclusive; sole; chosen; designated; one and only.
- Solitary; lonely; lonesome.
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