second intention
Americannoun
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Racy Saxon monosyllables, close to us as touch and sight, he will intermix readily with those long, savoursome, Latin words, rich in "second intention."
From Appreciations, with an Essay on Style by Pater, Walter
"You mean the second intention, don't you?" sais I. "No," he replied, "I mean what I say."
From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
If she carried either the first or the second intention into effect, it was Dale's custom to go along the road and meet her returning.
From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.
As the play proceeds he is made, as if with a second intention, more and more the antithesis, as he is the antipathy, of the prince.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
And this his second intention was to "have it out," as he expressed it, "with that league of curs and serpents, Vypan, Goad, and Terryer."
From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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