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
I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William
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
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
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)