Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In an express or a definite manner; explicitly.
  • adverb Especially; particularly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an express, direct, or pointed manner; of set purpose; in direct terms; plainly; explicitly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an expressive or explicit manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with specific intentions; for the express purpose

Etymologies

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express +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The title expressly describes the work as composed by the Bodhisattva Ma-Ming

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • One does not even need to address the history of this Amendment and the decision not to include the word "expressly".

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Paul Abrams 2011

  • What the AFL-CIO and the SEIU have stated expressly is they want a contemporaneous fix of the bill (READ “of the excise tax”) to support passage of the Senate health bill.

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Herding Cats 2010

  • If you look at the ‘marriage bar’, whereby women were given their cards upon marriage: this was a measure brought in expressly to protect the jobs of unmarried women.

    The Better Part 2008

  • Many guests came in expressly FOR Liver Pate weekend.

    Feeling Posh while Impoverished Sarah Lenz 2008

  • Many guests came in expressly FOR Liver Pate weekend.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

  • For those of faith and tongues, it is enough that they are in him virtually; but wisdom and understanding, they cannot be given by any but he that is wise and understandeth what he doth; and hence is he called expressly a "Spirit of wisdom and understanding, of counsel and knowledge," Isa. xi.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The first of these is the constant doctrine of the whole ancient church, viz, that whether, (for instance,) in our solemn prayers and invocations, we call expressly on the name of the Father, or of the Son, or of the Holy

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • His not specifying this here expressly is just what we might expect in the outset of this letter; towards the close, when he had won their favorable hearing by a kindly and firm tone, he gives a more distinct reference to Jewish agitators (2Co 11: 22). above strength -- that is, ordinary, natural powers of endurance. despaired -- as far as human help or hope from man was concerned.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • "I may tell the Dean-I call expressly from the Dean-that you are all right again?"

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870

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  • "Elvis has left the building", said Tom expressly.

    December 14, 2007

  • I expressly told you to milk that fast cow.

    February 1, 2008