intendment

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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

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

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

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 Harrison, William

The law must govern in its natural and plain intendment, and will not be frittered away by extraneous interpretation.

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 Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)

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 Binning, Hugh