second intention

American  

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

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second intention

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

"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

In his second chapter on healing he talks about healing by first and second intention.

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh

If they like trying them, it is only "in the second intention."

From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson

Signorelli was the first, and, with the exception of Michael Angelo, the last painter thus to use the body, without sentiment, without voluptuousness, without any second intention whatsoever, as the supreme decorative principle.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds