Definition of Intention

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Intention

A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York.

The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.

The state of being strained. See Intension.

Any mental apprehension of an object.

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Intention Quotations

Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
Jerry Garcia

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Intention Translations

intention in Afrikaans is plan
intention in Danish is hensigt
intention in Dutch is strekking, plan, doel, bedoeling
intention in French is intention, dgssein
intention in German is Absicht {f}
intention in Italian is proposito
intention in Latin is mens mentis
intention in Swedish is avsikt

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