purposefullyadv.
/ˈpəːpəsfᵿli/, /ˈpəːpəsfl̩i/, U.S. /ˈpərpəsf(ə)li/ In a purposeful manner.
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the mind > will > intention > [adverb]
willesOE
with one's willc1175
willes and waldesc1225
adviselya1325
wittinglya1340
wilfullyc1374
witting1377
a-purposea1382
of purpose (also (out) of (a) (set) purpose)a1382
wilfulc1381
willingly1402
of intention1430
knowingly1435
advisedlyc1449
deliberately1471
purpensely1472
purposely1495
prepensedly1496
purpensedly1496
purposedlya1540
proposely?1550
studiously1567
on (also upon) purpose1569
on set purpose1569
of industry1575
affectedly1582
premeditatelya1595
deliberatively1598
consultively1599
intentionallya1673
affectionally1603
by (also out of, on, upon) design1603
intentionately1609
industriouslya1616
perpensedly1624
intendedlya1641
unspontaneously1640
industrously1643
consultedly1645
consideringly1647
designedly1652
premeditatedly1653
wittily1653
intendingly1678
premeditatinglya1679
self-consciously1685
propensely1694
thinkingly1705
accidentally on purpose1711
affectionatelya1716
prepensely?1725
systematically1744
advertently1745
systemically1761
reflectively1775
purposefullya1854
meaningly1867
aimfully1870
purposively1878
designingly1879
proposedly1887
the mind > will > intention > [adverb] > purposefully
purposefullya1854
purposively1878
a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. v. 95 We were purposefully taken to inspect them.
1859 J. Ruskin Two Paths v. 240 It is much more pardonable to slay heedlessly than purposefully.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xviii. 224 He studied his trustee list now more purposefully than he had ever pored over his faculty line up.
1960 W. Miller Canticle for Leibowitz (1961) i. 1 Only..a thing with addled wits would hike purposefully down the trail at noon this way.
1988 P. Gay Freud i. 41 Freud worked purposefully, his eye on advancement.
2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 217/3 People..sprinted purposefully through Soho while talking on their mo-byles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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