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"text": "to make men singly and personally good",
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"text": "Ursula saw that now Bella Watson's chance meetings with him had to be strategically and singly planned by Bella, whose wifely attentions to the bereaved man were markedly meaning.",
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"(obsolete) Singularly; peculiarly."
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"Singularly; peculiarly."
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"(obsolete) Singularly; peculiarly."
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{
"word": "solo"
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{
"word": "solitarily"
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{
"sense": "individually",
"word": "discretely"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "by oneself"
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{
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{
"word": "honestly"
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"sense": "in a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion",
"word": "поотделно"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "in a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion",
"word": "erikseen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion",
"word": "yksitellen"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "samostojatelno",
"sense": "individually; separately",
"word": "самостоятелно"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "individually; separately",
"word": "singillātim"
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"word": "singly"
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