Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Purposing to become or be; prospective.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Designing or purposing to be or become.

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  • verb Present participle of intend.

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Examples

  • I did not use the word intending that connotation.

    Arjuna Ardagh: Response to the 435 Comments on 'Why It Is Wise to Worship a Woman' 2010

  • On 23 May 1794, the day after a different would-be assassin intending to kill Robespierre had fired on Collot d'Herbois, Renault made her attempt on Robespierre's life.

    Annotations 2007

  • Knowing the nature of the woman, how ardent, how impetuous she could be, and how full of wrath, he had come at her call intending to tell her the truth which he now spoke.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • And he proceeded upstairs to examine the luggage, from which Cardo had removed the labels intending to redirect them to his uncles house.

    By Berwen Banks Allen Raine 1885

  • Knowing the nature of the woman, how ardent, how impetuous she could be, and how full of wrath, he had come at her call intending to tell her the truth which he now spoke.

    The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1848

  • The next day he called intending to apologise, but Miss Jane refused to admit him.

    Won from the Waves William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • After the judge denied their request for a dictionary, the jurors spent an entire morning wrestling with what the word intending meant.

    Prophetic Justice 2006

  • The essential logical difficulty here resides in the notion of intending to die, for acting so as to produce one's death nearly always has some other aim or justification.

    Suicide Cholbi, Michael 2008

  • After the judge denied their request for a dictionary, the jurors spent an entire morning wrestling with what the word intending meant.

    Prophetic Justice 2006

  • On the appointed day, old Kárpáthy -- if it be right to call our intending bridegroom old -- sent Palko to Boltay's, and with great delight received the message that he was to come for the ring himself.

    A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864

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