intendment

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I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.

From Othello by Shakespeare, William

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

In the technical language of English law the fee-simple of the glebe is said to be in abeyance, that is, it exists “only in the remembrance, expectation and intendment of the law.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

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