Definition of "singly" [sin•gly]

• Without the presence of others; alone. (adverb)
• Without the help of others; single-handed. (adverb)
• One by one; individually. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "[_If 'irrational' here means simply 'non-rational,' or non-deducible from the essence of either term singly, it is no reproach; if it means 'contradicting' such essence, Mr. Bradley should show wherein and how_.]"
• "They had been whites, all of them, these poor murdered people, and they had been slain singly, in pairs, and in parties."
• "In Il deserto rosso (Red Desert), characters emerge singly from the ghostly fog as they watch Giuliana walk away from the car that she has almost driven off a pier."