intendment
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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
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
Yet manifested he is, as the intendment of the work he was about required,—manifested to reproach and ignominy for our sin.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
I think not, for the following reasons: The statute does not by any words of legal intendment say so.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews
Hath he discover'd my intendment, That he presages his ensuing death?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt