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Intention   /ɪntˈɛntʃən/   Listen
Intention

noun
1.
An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.  Synonyms: aim, design, intent, purpose.  "Good intentions are not enough" , "It was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs" , "He made no secret of his designs"
2.
(usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal.
3.
An act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out.



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... mostly women and children, were, it is alleged, cast into the river Tigris.[105] The Swedish Premier, by an enigmatic speech in which the doctrine of neutrality at all costs was ostentatiously repudiated, aroused suspicion of an intention on the part of his Government to join the Teutons in order to weaken the Slav neighbour, and to this apprehension colour was imparted by the tardy announcement that since the outbreak of the war Sweden had increased her army from 360,000 ...
— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon
... for his intention beneath the weird jargon was somehow benevolent. "And if you'll be good enough to wait until I have taken ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... gotten into comfortable quarters, and he had no intention of changing them, for a while at least. Then he was very handsome, and had such a pleasant way with him, that the family could not help liking him. I never cared for him. He fawned on the Morrises, and pretended he loved them, and afterward turned around and laughed and sneered ...
— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders
... of recovering Mr. Prendergast, she could not easily have made up her mind to leave her brother in his present condition, and flattered herself that the 'at once' could not possibly be speedy, since Mr. Prendergast must give notice of his intention of leaving Wrapworth. ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... in my church; but, having had no training in the law, I am less certain that my political position will be as unmistakably understood by the rulers in my state. Therefore, to avoid misinterpretation of certain words and phrases in this booklet, I here expressly disclaim any intention of violating the criminal-syndicalism statute of Ohio, following as closely as may be its phraseology in these my denials of ...
— Communism and Christianism - Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View • William Montgomery Brown


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