primary intention

noun

1. Logic. intention5a

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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