second intention

American  

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

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Example Sentences

The talk turned on "Society" in the second intention of the word —— had enumerated certain houses in which you must be at home if pretending to the exclusive social set.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

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

Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

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

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.

"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