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intendment

[in-tend-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɛnd mənt /












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Other differences cropped up as to the phraseology of the Wilson Resolution and its legal intendment.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

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

In the technical language of English law the fee-simple of the glebe is said to be in abeyance, that is, it exists “only in the remembrance, expectation and intendment of the law.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

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

For their lives, neither could have translated its deep intendment.

From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Douglas Duer




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