intendment
Example Sentences
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For their lives, neither could have translated its deep intendment.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas
Hath he discover'd my intendment, That he presages his ensuing death?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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)
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 Binning, Hugh
I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William