adv. [f. LONELY + -LY2.] In a lonely fashion.

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1831.  Essex Standard, 26 Nov., 2/3.

        An when ’mid foreign climes you roam—
  Lonelily and a stranger;
May God thy wandering footsteps guide,
  And guard the safe from danger.

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1850.  R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr. (ed. 2), I. 117. We lived well, but lonelily.

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1852.  M. Arnold, Tristram & Iseult. The weird chipping of the woodpecker Rang lonelily and sharp.

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