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/ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/
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ɪnˈtɛnʃən
Noun
A course of action that a person intends to follow.
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My intention was to marry a wealthy widow.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
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“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.[…]”
A goal or purpose.
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The intention of this legislation is to boost the economy.
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Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
Tension; straining, stretching.
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cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].
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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it is attention: when the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study
The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
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In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts; […].
Any mental apprehension of an object.
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A process of the healing of a wound.
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When healing occurs by primary intention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.
Verb
To intend.
Noun
an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
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his intent was to provide a new translation
good intentions are not enough
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it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs
he made no secret of his designs
(usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal
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his intentions are entirely honorable
an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out
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my intention changed once I saw her