EXPRESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expressly mean? 

• EXPRESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXPRESSLY has 1 sense:

1. with specific intentions; for the express purpose

  Familiarity information: EXPRESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPRESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With specific intentions; for the express purpose

Context example:

she needs the money expressly for her patients

Pertainym:

express (not tacit or implied)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Crupp was to find linen, and to cook; every other necessary was already provided; and Mrs. Crupp expressly intimated that she should always yearn towards me as a son.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was only by the aid of a man whom the landlord procured, and of Fox’s valet, who had been sent expressly across, that his toilet was at last performed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their tempers were mild, but their principles were steady, and while his parent so expressly forbade the connection, they could not allow themselves to encourage it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

‘The other is a good three pound heavier,’ said she, ‘and we fattened it expressly for you.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were misunderstandings between them, Emma; he said so expressly.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Immediately surrounding Mrs Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom she was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the Cottage, expressly arrived to amuse them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She now found that she had erred in relying on Elinor's representation of herself; and justly concluded that every thing had been expressly softened at the time, to spare her from an increase of unhappiness, suffering as she then had suffered for Marianne.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Adele now petitioned to go down; but I took her on my knee, and gave her to understand that she must not on any account think of venturing in sight of the ladies, either now or at any other time, unless expressly sent for: that Mr. Rochester would be very angry, &c.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could, with great pleasure, enlarge further upon the manners and virtues of this excellent people; but intending in a short time to publish a volume by itself, expressly upon that subject, I refer the reader thither; and, in the mean time, proceed to relate my own sad catastrophe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Does it not expressly declare that Caroline neither expects nor wishes me to be her sister; that she is perfectly convinced of her brother's indifference; and that if she suspects the nature of my feelings for him, she means (most kindly!) to put me on my guard?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)