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expressly

Adverb

Meaning

In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.

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Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressly for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. Philip Kapleau

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. Abraham Lincoln

The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined. Bill Moyers

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. Jacques Ellul

I...had strong feelings excited in my mind against Scotland generally (always expressly making great exceptions) by observing that the scoundrelly "feelosofers”, who preached up a doctrine, tending to cause the people of England to be treated like cattle. William Cobbett

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed. Garth Nix

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