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noun

Intent n. The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim. "Be thy intents wicked or charitable." "The principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the laws of duties supernatural."

To all intents and purposes, in all applications or senses; practically; really; virtually; in essence; essentially. "He was miserable to all intents and purpose."

Synonyms: Design; purpose; intention; meaning; purport; view; drift; object; end; aim; plan.

adjective

Intent adj.

Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure. "Intent on mischief." "Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intent" Quotes from Famous Books

... which they passed at the time refute it. There is the fugitive slave law, and that abomination of laws which assumed to confiscate the property of a citizen who should attempt to bring it into this District with intent to remove it to sell it at some other time and at some other place. Congress acted then upon the subject—acted beyond the limit of its authority, as I believed, confidently believed; and, if ever that act comes before the Supreme Court, I feel satisfied they will declare it null and ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... and placed within the honored relations of mankind. It was a tribute to the purity and sincerity of the Mormon women who had borne the cross of plural marriage, believing that God had commanded their suffering. It recognized the holy nature and honorable intent of the marriages of these women, by according their children every right of legal inheritance from their fathers. If all other covenants could be forgotten and their proof obliterated, this should remain as Utah's pledge of honor—sacred for ...

— Under the Prophet in Utah - The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft • Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins

... intent I returned to the position from which I had lately hailed, and crept into a hole in the rocks whence I could still occasionally hear the calls of the natives; but, being thoroughly worn out, I soon forgot my toils and dangers in a very sound ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) • George Grey

... occasions it never was meant: In a chest between two silken cloths 'Twas kept safely hidden with careful intent In camphor to keep out the moths. 'Twas famed far and wide through the whole countryside, From Beersheba e'en unto Dan; And often at meeting with envy 'twas ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various

... according to Sir George Sitwell, and an entirely typical representative of his class, was a certain glorious hero who fought with Talbot at Agincourt, and also, as the unearthing of obscure documents shows, at other times indulged in housebreaking, and in wounding with intent to kill, and in "procuring the murder of one Thomas Page, who was cut to pieces while on his knees begging for his life." There, evidently, was a state of society highly favourable to the warlike man, highly unfavourable ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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