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Intendiment vs Intendment - What's the difference?

intendiment | intendment |

As nouns the difference between intendiment and intendment

is that intendiment is understanding; careful consideration, attention while intendment is the sense in which the legal system interprets something, especially the intention of legislation.

intendiment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Understanding; careful consideration, attention.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.12:
  • *:be nought hereat dismayd, / Till well ye wote by graue intendiment , / What woman, and wherefore doth me vpbrayd [...].
  • (obsolete) Intention, objective.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
  • *:The noble Mayd still standing all this vewd, / And merveild at his straunge intendiment .

    • intendment

    English

    Noun

  • (legal) the sense in which the legal system interprets something, especially the intention of legislation