primary intention

How to use primary intention in a sentence

• Let us say that a sin is an act deliberately committed with the primary intention of inflicting an injury upon some one.

  Children of the Desert | Louis Dodge

• Of this change eternity is by primary intention the negation, as its philological form shows.

  Creative Intelligence | John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

• It must be so; for in war the effect of an operation is never confined to the limits of its immediate or primary intention.

  Some Principles of Maritime Strategy | Julian Stafford Corbett

• Only the first volume originally contained much more Egyptian material, and the third I lengthened beyond my primary intention.

  The Story Of My Life From Childhood To Manhood | Georg Ebers

• But assuredly it was not with the primary intention of making this confession that either play was written.

  The Youth of Goethe | Peter Hume Brown