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Onone, Onon, One-one, adv. [ME. on one (Manning), on oone (Trevisa), early ME. onon: cf. On-ane, Anone.]Appar. only in early verse, esp. Wynt. and Doug. Æn., and chiefly written as one word. In Leg. S. and Wynt. chiefly or only in rhyme, in Wynt. chiefly with personal or place-names, as Jhone, Sampsone, Babilone, Macedone.

1. Directly, in a straight course. 1513 Doug. vi. v. 1.
Fra thyne strekis the way profund onone Deip onto hellys flude of Acheron

2. Forthwith. = On ane adv. 1.Also sone, syne onone, onone rycht, immediately, quickly.(1) a1400 Leg. S. iii. 87.
One one [: Dyone] Ib. xxxvi. 594.
& he alsone Gert mak a costlyk kirk on one Ib. xlv. 124.]
[One ane [: sone] c1420 Wynt. v. 350. Ib. ii. 480; etc.
Herrode als … Exylide he gert be onone [: Jhone] c1475 Wall. i. 422.
Till him thai raid onon or thai wald blyne Ib. ix. 34. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 239.
Onone quhen this amyable had endit hir speche [etc.] Ib. 264.
Quhen it nedis ȝow onone note baith ther stranthis 1513 Doug. ii. ii. 34.
He … on this wys onone begouth to say Ib. viii. 1. Ib. iii. ii. 7.
Furth of the havin we salit al onone [: gone] Ib. iii. 40.
Get vp onone Ib. iv. 75.
Addres ȝe thus to mak bargane onon [: Laomedon]? Ib. v. xiii. 29; etc.(2) c1420 Wynt. ii. 396.
Hame thai passyd sone on one [: Symeon] Ib. iv. 970. c1475 Wall. viii. 92.
And sone onon [etc.](3) c1420 Wynt. v. 2868.
The Pape Sylvestyr syne onone [: wysione] Baptyst this Constantyne Ib. iii. 37, v. 2855.(4) 1513 Doug. iv. x. 2.
Euery wery wight … hath caucht onon rycht The sownd plesand sleip