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Definition of Make a point
1. Verb. Make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally.
Definition of Make a point
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To argue or promote an idea. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To take care in doing something of something; to pay attention or ensure that something is done. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Make A Point
Literary usage of Make a point
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... TO make a point OF = (l) to strive (or insist) to an end, and (2) to elicit
a detail or make a desired impression (also TO PROVE ONE'S POINT); ..."
2. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"They were .very sure that I should make a point of answering their confidence.
I answered it so well, that, in the sequel, they confessed I had exceeded ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If this man is not nit you may then make a point and so get as good a game as
your opponent. If it is hit you must play a bade came (ie, allow him to take ..."
4. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"The art of self-defence Mr. Feeder said he should undoubtedly make a point of
learning, as he considered it the duty of every man to do : for it might lead ..."
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