intendment
Americannoun
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Law. the true or correct meaning of something.
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intention; design; purpose.
noun
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the meaning of something as fixed or understood by the law
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obsolete intention, design, or purpose
Etymology
Origin of intendment
1350–1400; intend + -ment; replacing Middle English entendement < Middle French < Medieval Latin intendimentum
Example Sentences
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That reformation is one part of the Holy Ghost's intendment in that text, is Gualther's opinion as well as mine, yet he thinks Gualther his own.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Was it not Christ's great intendment and purpose, to purify to himself a holy people?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
But Jacob denied that he came to their house with any such intendment, nor did it appear so to the Court.
From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat
Other differences cropped up as to the phraseology of the Wilson Resolution and its legal intendment.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
In the technical language of English law the fee-simple of the glebe is said to be in abeyance, that is, it exists “only in the remembrance, expectation and intendment of the law.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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