second intention

American  

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

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Example Sentences

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 Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

"You mean the second intention, don't you?" sais I. "No," he replied, "I mean what I say."

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

"Abracadabra is a second intention" is neither true nor false.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart

For them, our best established axioms would be inconceivable, would have no more meaning than that 'Abracadabra is a second intention.'

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)

With this second intention, I was to have combined, by the courtesy of the French Headquarters, a visit to certain central portions of the French line, including Soissons, Reims, and Verdun.

From Towards the Goal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.