second intention
Americannoun
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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
If they like trying them, it is only "in the second intention."
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
"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
If she carried either the first or the second intention into effect, it was Dale's custom to go along the road and meet her returning.
From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.
Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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