second intention
Americannoun
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Healing by second intention is characterized by pus formation and granulation tissue.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.
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.
As the play proceeds he is made, as if with a second intention, more and more the antithesis, as he is the antipathy, of the prince.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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.
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