intents

NOUN

aim, purpose

Synonyms

WEAK

acceptation animus bottom line conation design desire drift end goal heart hope idea import intendment meaning meat name of the game nature notion nub nuts and bolts object objective plan point project purport scheme score sense significance significancy signification target understanding volition will wish

Example Sentences

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No Merchant in all Babylon, it is very well known, was ever so noted for selling Cream-Cheeses as myself; and yet I am ruin’d to all Intents and Purposes.

From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

Till the Re-introduction of Prelacy, to be of themselves void and null, to all Effects and Intents.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

I am removed to all Intents and Purposes from the Interests of human Life, therefore I am to begin to think like one wholly unconcerned in it.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Thoughts are no subjects; Intents but merely thoughts.

From Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, William