intendment
Americannoun
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Law. the true or correct meaning of something.
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intention; design; purpose.
noun
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the meaning of something as fixed or understood by the law
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obsolete intention, design, or purpose
Etymology
Origin of intendment
1350–1400; intend + -ment; replacing Middle English entendement < Middle French < Medieval Latin intendimentum
Example Sentences
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I think not, for the following reasons: The statute does not by any words of legal intendment say so.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)
Was it not Christ's great intendment and purpose, to purify to himself a holy people?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Yet manifested he is, as the intendment of the work he was about required,—manifested to reproach and ignominy for our sin.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Other differences cropped up as to the phraseology of the Wilson Resolution and its legal intendment.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William
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