intendment
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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
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 Gillespie, George
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
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
I think not, for the following reasons: The statute does not by any words of legal intendment say so.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)