second intention
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"You mean the second intention, don't you?" sais I. "No," he replied, "I mean what I say."
From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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 R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
If they like trying them, it is only "in the second intention."
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
Even then the milk would have a suspicious flavor, or post-mortem smell, I apprehend; it would be the same thing, by second intention, as the surgeons say.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
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