intendment
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Our terrestrial organisations are but far-off approaches to so fair a model; and all they are verily traitors who resist not any attempt to divert them from this their original intendment.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
That reformation is one part of the Holy Ghost's intendment in that text, is Gualther's opinion as well as mine, yet he thinks Gualther his own.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Was it not Christ's great intendment and purpose, to purify to himself a holy people?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
The law must govern in its natural and plain intendment, and will not be frittered away by extraneous interpretation.
From History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 by Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross
The one sort of these also are for the most part taken strictly according to the letter, the other more largely and beneficially after their intendment and meaning.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
