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
I think not, for the following reasons: The statute does not by any words of legal intendment say so.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)
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 Harrison, William
I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William
But Jacob denied that he came to their house with any such intendment, nor did it appear so to the Court.
From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick