intendment
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But Hee, whose never-slumb'ring Eye did view The dire intendments of this damned crew, Did soone prevent what they did thinke most sure.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
In the beginning of his chapter on ‘Speaking peace,’ Thomas Goodwin tells his reader that he is going to fully couch all his intendments under a metaphor and an allegory.
From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander
But by occasion hereof, many other adventures are intermedled; but rather as accidents then intendments.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund