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secondary intention

noun

, Logic.
  1. intention5b


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Example Sentences

In this way, it was very clear that the play was designed for a hearing audience with a secondary intention of being accessible to the deaf.

My medical school textbook calls it “healing by secondary intention.”

From Salon

For Jacobeans this interior dialogue, with its "secondary intention" marches like muted music through the pages of the latter period.

Miss Bennett's intention was, I presently discovered, to hunt with Flurry Knox's hounds on the following day: she had brought over a horse, and it became clear to me that her secondary intention was to return without it.

It is probably earlier than the Alcestis, and is interesting because it shows Euripides writing for once without any arrière pensée, or secondary intention.

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