intendment

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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 Gillespie, George

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 Binning, Hugh

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 Inge, William Ralph

I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.

From Othello by Shakespeare, William

But I cannot find that, either in fact or in legal intendment, he was appointed during the present Presidential term.

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 Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)