Definition of Intending

1. Verb. (present participle of intend) ¹

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Definition of Intending

1. intend [v] - See also: intend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intending

intend
intendance
intendances
intendancies
intendancy
intendant
intendants
intended
intendedly
intendeds
intender
intenders
intendest
intendeth
intendiment
intending (current term)
intendment
intendments
intends
intenerate
intenerated
intenerates
intenerating
inteneration
intenerations
intenible
intensate
intensated
intensates
intensating

Literary usage of Intending

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... fome ten men in a boat, intending, no doubt, to have come on board and plundered the fhip ; and if they had found us there, to have carried us away for ..."

2. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"... quando"—intending, of course, a mere figure of speech ; and from the class of modern authors who use really nothing to write with but steel and gold, ..."

3. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"... he presently wills some given act; intending the act (as the consequence of the volition), and intending some further event (as the consequence of the ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"I am intending, however, neither arraignment nor excuse, but a bare statement of what were to me rather surprising facts. RESPIRATION IN PLANTS. ..."

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