purposely
advUS /ˈpɝpəsli/ · UK /ˈpɜːpəsli/
Etymology From Middle English purposly; equivalent to purpose + -ly.
1
On purpose; intentionally.
- [T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 21: