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Intention

noun

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"

(usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal.

An act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out.

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... mind was illumined by her knowledge of herself. In the light of that she saw precisely what capital this tale-bearer sought to make. The occasion might not be without its opportunities for her; and to begin with, it was no part of her intention that Wilding should be thus maligned and finally driven from the lists of rivalry with Blake. Upon Wilding, indeed, and his notorious masterfulness did she found what hopes she still entertained of winning ...

— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini

... one will agree in conceding to Stevenson is lightness of touch. This quality is a result of his extreme lucidity, not only of thought, but of intention. We know what he means, and we are sure that we grasp his whole meaning at the first reading. Whether he be writing a tale of travel or humorous essay, a novel of adventure, a story of horror, a morality, or a fable; in whatever key he plays,—and he seems to have taken delight in showing ...

— Emerson and Other Essays • John Jay Chapman

... which you demand in me does not exist in yourselves. But let us end this disagreeable scene. Perhaps I have demonstrated something that you never realized. I hope you understand. I now surrender to you the one hundred thousand dollars, which you thought I had stolen. I had no intention of keeping it; I only pretended to take it in order to ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various

... too, was not yet accomplished. He had had no intention of escorting Droulde himself; he had still important business to transact inside the house which he had just quitted, and had merely wished to get the Citizen-Deputy well out of the way, before he ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... no one will give him warning of your intention: he is so clever, he would throw dust ...

— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald

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