intendment
Example Sentences
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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
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: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William
For their lives, neither could have translated its deep intendment.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas
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