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)

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 School, A Sexton of the Old

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

Racy Saxon monosyllables, close to us as touch and sight, he will intermix readily with those long, savoursome, Latin words, rich in "second intention."

From Appreciations, with an Essay on Style by Pater, Walter

Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund