intendment
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For their lives, neither could have translated its deep intendment.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Douglas Duer
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 think not, for the following reasons: The statute does not by any words of legal intendment say so.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews
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
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
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