Word Finder - intention

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The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.

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It’s easy to promise anything when you have no intention of fulfilling any of it.

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Tension; straining, stretching.

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A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

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The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.

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Any mental apprehension of an object.

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The process of the healing of a wound.

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Intend

She had no intention of staying here.

I have no intention of doing so.

If that was his intention, it sure worked.

If Alex knew that, he gave no indication - and she had no intention of telling him.

Where the children were concerned, she had no intention of remaining silent.

She darted into the house with the intention of warning Alex.

Her intention was to stay there to make sure he did not go out to hunt.

She had no intention of spending eternity there, though.

Carmen, I have no intention of getting into a fist fight with him.

Anna Mikhaylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment.

She had no intention of letting him turn her into a mouse.

She had no intention of wearing sundresses when she was with the guests – and it had nothing to do with being concerned about how she appeared to them.

Nor would it seem as if it could be the intention of the author to do much more than point out the lines on which the further treatment of the subject should advance.

At supper after the opera he described to Dolokhov with the air of a connoisseur the attractions of her arms, shoulders, feet, and hair and expressed his intention of making love to her.

The enormous Drissa camp was formed on Pfuel's plan, and there was no intention of retiring farther.

It was never my intention to rule.

So you think Shipton came out here to Ouray with the intention of killing his wife?

That was a game Dean had no intention of playing and the silence draped the room like a spring fog.

The Code recognized the importance of intention.

He resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his intention to part from her forever.

I telephoned their office with the intention of informing them myself.

But the king was only temporizing; he had no intention of changing his policy.

He matriculated at Heidelberg with the intention of pursuing an ecclesiastical career.

When he was six years of age he announced his intention of going to Conchobar's court at Emain Macha (Navan Rath near Armagh) to play with the boys there.

On the 6th of October he had reached Pernau, with the intention of first relieving Riga, but, hearing that Narva was in great straits, he decided to turn northwards against the tsar.

He studied law with the intention of becoming an advocate, but soon became absorbed in politics.

Most people play sport for fun and have no intention of making money from it.

Stolypin, there is no intention of converting the ministerial bench into a prisoners' dock.

The Chaff-cutting Machines (Accidents) Act 1897 is a measure very similar in its intention to the Threshing Machines Act 1878, and provides for the automatic prevention of accidents to persons in charge of chaff-cutting machines.

Whilst much grass land has been laid down with the intention from the outset that it should be permanent, at the same time some considerable areas have through stress of circumstances been allowed to drift from the temporary or rotation grass area to the permanent list, and have thus still further diminished the area formerly under the dominion of the plough.

In 1822, however, when he had just completed his seventeenth year, this intention was abandoned, and he entered as a clerk in the examiner's office of the India House, "with the understanding that he should be employed from the beginning in preparing drafts of despatches, and be thus trained up as a successor to those who then filled the highest departments of the office."

On the passing of the act of parliament in 1545 enabling the king to dissolve chantries and colleges, Parker was appointed one of the commissioners for Cambridge, and their report saved its colleges, if there had ever been any intention to destroy them.

Nasir Lek's message and the urgent representations of Firdousi's friends had the desired effect; and Mahmud not only expressed his intention of offering full reparation to the poet, but put his enemy Maimandi to death.

These actions proclaimed so unmistakably Napoleon's intention of making Italy an annexe of France as to convince Francis of Austria and Alexander of Russia that war with him was inevitable.

In the eighteenth chapter he records his intention of founding a hall at Oxford, and in connexion with it a library of which his books were to form the nucleus.

I found the idea of this event rather intriguing, but never had any intention of taking part.

The intention was to compile an inventory of ancient culture.

The scientists who devised the ARPANET had no intention to make possible that seemingly irresistible force for globalization, the World Wide Web.

This government has no intention of banning cigarettes so it should not be banning kava kava.

Declaration of the King's intention to pay a legacy of 2000 French livres, left by the late Queen of Scots to Thos.

The intention here is to close off a vat loophole.

Contravention of the letter or intention of this Code of Conduct may be used to terminate membership.

Engineers were given the task of tunneling underneath the enemy trench, with the intention of then detonating mines directly underneath the front line.

However I have no intention of bringing her up to be either mollycoddled or a gender stereotype.

There are no signposts for these have been removed with the intention of confusing german parachutists fallen from out of the sky.

The intention of this scholarship is to promote field parasitology (collection of data or samples) under any difficult conditions.

The intention clearly is to place this 'we ' upon a high pedestal.

Therefore, such evidence is generated with the specific intention of influencing policy, but is that objective achieved?

For Hammond all contemporary craft potters, however diverse in method and intention, contributed to the momentum of the discipline.

He said he has no intention of revealing the names of his confidential sources, citing journalistic precedent.