second intention

American  

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

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Example Sentences

"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

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 Symonds, John Addington

Healing then occurs by granulation or suppuration, which is termed healing by second intention.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

"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