intendment
Example Sentences
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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)
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
Hath he discover'd my intendment, That he presages his ensuing death?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.