Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Attention; patient hearing; consideration; understanding; knowledge; intention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Understanding ; carefulconsideration ,attention . - noun obsolete
Intention ,objective .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Looke how I am, such art thou like to be If armes preuent not heauens intendiment, _Grinuile_, which now surfeits with dignitie,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But she smiled at his speech and retorted, Indeed, it is a matter right marvellous how error springeth from the disorder of man’s intendiment!!
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No wonder, dread, nor base astonishment, But true resolue, and valurs sacred blaze, The crowne of heauen, and starrie ornament Deck’t his diuine part, and from thence did raze Affects of earth, or earth’s intendiment.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Indeed, it is a matter right marvellous how error springeth from the disorder of man's intendiment!!
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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