adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. Exclusively, solely; only.
1820. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., I. 13. It is a picture uniquely Greek, to have a person of his rank in life giving such a debtor and creditor account of his intellectual pleasures as Dicæopolis does.
1893. Saltus, Mme. Sapphira, 182. She had married him uniquely to go into society.
1893. Nation (N.Y.), 28 Sept., 220/1. That distinction he can still boast to be his uniquely.
b. By itself alone; separately.
1885. Leudesdorf, Cremona’s Proj. Geom., 43. Therefore D1 must coincide with D′, since the three points A′B′C′ determine uniquely the fourth point which forms with them a harmonic range.
2. To a unique degree or extent; so as to be unique; singularly, especially, pre-eminently.
1846. Darwin, in Life & Lett. (1887), I. 345. I sent you a uniquely laudatory epistle.
1881. H. W. Nicholson, From Sword to Share, vii. 41. The climate is simply and uniquely perfect.
1886. W. J. Tucker, E. Europe, 310. The uniquely-shaped and quaintly-coloured furniture.
