Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POINT'ED-LY
POINT'ED-LY, adv.
- In a pointed manner; with lively turns of thought or expression. He often wrote too pointedly for his subject. – Dryden.
- With direct assertion; with direct reference to a subject; with explicitness; as, he declared pointedly he would accede to the proposition.
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