Word Meanings - INTENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intention.

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• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• INTENTIONAL
  Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
• INTENTIONALLY
  In an intentional manner; with intention; by design; of purpose.
• INTENTION
  Any mental apprehension of an object. First intention , a conception of a thing formed by the first or direct application of the mind to the individual object; an idea or image; as, man, stone. -- Second intention , a conception generalized from
• INTENTIONED
  Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well- intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having ill designs.
• WELL-INTENTIONED
  Having upright intentions or honorable purposes. Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France, as the wellintentioned party. Macaulay.