intents

nounaim, purpose

Synonyms for intents

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Word Origin & History

"purpose," early 13c., from Old French entente, from Latin intentus "a stretching out," in Late Latin "intention, attention," noun use of past participle of intendere "stretch out, lean toward, strain," literally "to stretch out" (see intend).

Example Sentences for intents

He was miles from St. Pancras, foot-weary, to all intents and purposes lost.

To all intents and purposes, he would in time become that man.

Those so treated were to all intents dead, though their bodies did not decay.

By hundreds gather they to vow Their little yearnings and intents.

To all intents and purposes she had been a long while in Richmond.

We are still south of the Big Lead of 1906, but to all intents and purposes this is it.

But Louisa was now to all intents and purposes an Englishwoman.

The Chinese quarter is to all intents and purposes a Chinese city.

To all intents and purposes they had two foes, one in front and the other in the rear.

These people have created, to all intents and purposes, a man.