purpositively

comparative more purpositively · superlative most purpositively

1. In a purpositive manner.

   Knowledge of these subjects would grow rapidly if the school would take hold of the matter purpositively […]

   1899, Severance Burrage, Henry Turner Bailey, “School Children”, in School Sanitation and Decoration: A Practical Study of Health and Beauty in their Relations to Public Schools, Boston; New York; Chicago: D.C. Heath and Company, page 145

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   Development should purpositively target these differences (treating communities as heterogeneous rather than homogenous groups.

   2005, Olu-Olu Olufayo, Perspective on Globalisation and Africa Development, Bolabay Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 126

   Cattle farms of about seventy cattle were purpositively selected following the report that some of the animals in the farms had pica and reduced appetite.

   2015 March 29, Christopher Igoche Ogbaje, Idris Alao Lawal, Ologunja Joseph Ajanusi, “Sensitivity of Nigerian field isolates of Trypanosoma vivax and Trypanosoma congolense to commonly available trypanocides”, in Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, volume 5, number 3, via ResearchGate, →DOI, pages 214–218

   Synonyms: purposively