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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishentencioun,intention, fromOld Frenchentencion, fromLatinintentiō, intentiōnem. Compareintent.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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intention (countable anduncountable,pluralintentions)

  1. Acourse ofaction that a personintends tofollow.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:intention
    Myintention was to marry a wealthy widow.
    It’s easy to promise anything when you have nointention of fulfilling any of it.
    • a. 1784, attributed toSamuel Johnson
      Hell is paved with goodintentions.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      “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 yourintentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
    • 1935,George Goodchild, chapter 3, inDeath on the Centre Court:
      It had been hisintention 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. […]”
    • 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, inSCP Foundation‎[1], archived fromthe original on22 May 2024:
      Zevala was ablaze, and all the insurgents — as they called themselves — were scurrying about like chickens with their heads cut off. There was talk of an attack. A second invading force. Perhaps the Foundation. Perhaps something worse.

      That something worse had everyintention of worsening further still. There were many, many more things to burn before she and her sister were alone on the cliffside.

  2. Thegoal orpurpose.
    Theintention of this legislation is to boost the economy.
    • 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, inEmpire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books,→ISBN, page x:
      Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not theintention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
  3. (obsolete)Tension;straining,stretching.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC:
      , I.iii.3:
      cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, andintention proceeds from perturbations […].
  4. A stretching or bending of the mind toward anobject or apurpose (anintent); closeness ofapplication;fixedness ofattention;earnestness.
    • 1689 (indicated as1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, inAn Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […],→OCLC, book I,page19:
      it isattention : when the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study
  5. (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed;end;aim.
  6. (obsolete) Anymentalapprehension of anobject.
  7. (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.
    • 2007, Carie Ann Braun, Cindy Miller Anderson,Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health,page49:
      When healing occurs by primaryintention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“intention”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)

Derived terms

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Related terms

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Translations

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course intended to follow
the goal or purpose
fixedness of attention

Verb

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intention (third-person singular simple presentintentions,present participleintentioning,simple past and past participleintentioned)

  1. Tointend.

Translations

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intend—seeintend

References

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Finnish

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Noun

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intention

  1. genitivesingular ofintentio

French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Frenchentention, fromOld Frenchentencion, borrowed fromLatinintentiōnem. Respelledintention inMiddle French to more closely match the Classical Latin form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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intention f (pluralintentions)

  1. intention
    dans l’intention de devenir roi
    with theintention of becoming king
    prêter desintentions à quelqu’un
    to accuse someone ofintentions ("motives")

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Middle French

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Noun

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intention f (pluralintentions)

  1. Alternative form ofentention

Swedish

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Noun

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intention c

  1. (often in theplural) anintention (planned course of action)
    goda/onda/oklaraintentioner
    good/evil/unclearintentions

Declension

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Declension ofintention
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteintentionintentions
definiteintentionenintentionens
pluralindefiniteintentionerintentioners
definiteintentionernaintentionernas

See also

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  • avsikt (more idiomatic for "it was not my intention" and the like)

References

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