intendment
Example Sentences
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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
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 Frederick Marryat
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
I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.
From Othello by William Shakespeare
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 Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross