intendment
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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
Our terrestrial organisations are but far-off approaches to so fair a model; and all they are verily traitors who resist not any attempt to divert them from this their original intendment.
From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph
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 Marryat, Frederick
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