on purpose
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on purpose
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- By design, as opposed to by accident; intentionally; deliberately. That wasn't an accident! You did it on purpose!
- In order to (do something); with the objective that. Blifil bowed and stammered, and looked like a fool; but Western, without giving him time to form a speech for the purpose, answered, “Well, well, I am to blame, if you will, I always am, certainly; but come, let the girl be fetched back again, or let Mr Blifil go to her.——He’s come up on purpose, an
