adv. north. dial. and Sc. Forms: 4–7 allanerly(e, 6 alanerly, 6–7 allanerlie, 6–8 allenerly, 6– allenarly. [f. ALL adv. + ANERLY singly.]
1. Solitarily, alone; only, solely, merely. (Still in Sc. law.)
1340. Hampole, Prose Tr., 4. Allanerly þay may ioye in Ihesu þat lufes hym in þis lyfe.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, V. 281. That he wald cum all-anerly For to spek with him priuely.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scotl. (1858), I. 216. Thus am I left allanerlie allone.
1549. Compl. Scotl., 3. Ȝour grace deseruis nocht to be callit ane nobil, alanerly throcht ȝour verteouse verkis.
c. 1565. R. Lindsay, Hist. Scotl. (1728), 37. Ambitiousness cometh never of God, but allenarly of the devil.
1687. Royal Procl., in Lond. Gaz., mmccxxi/3. To accept of Our Indulgence allanerly, and none other.
1711. Countrey-Man’s Lett. to Curat, 62. ’Tis all the Child of his own Fancy allenerly.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxix. 308. On whilk … the gospel shineth allenarly, and leaveth the rest of the world in utter darkness.
2. adj., Only, sole.
1533. Bellenden, Livy (1822), I. 86. His empire … was under the governance of ane allanerly persoun.
1587. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 51. James our second and allanerlie son.
