Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PUR'POSE-LY
PUR'POSE-LY, adv.
By design; intentionally; with predetermination. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. – Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng / By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. – Pope.
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