Noun

(en noun)

A course of action that a person intends to follow.

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*(Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784) (but see Apocryhpha )

*:Hell is paved with good intentions .

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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.

The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.

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(lb) Tension; straining, stretching.

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*:cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].

A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea.

(lb) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.

*1732 , (John Arbuthnot), An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments … , Prop. II, p.159:

*:In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts;.

(lb) Any mental apprehension of an object.

(lb) The process of the healing of a wound.

*2007 , Carie Ann Braun, ?Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health , p.49:

*:When healing occurs by primary intention , the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.

(Webster 1913)

Noun

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

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Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

(lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).