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second intention
noun
- intention5b
Example Sentences
âWe donât know if itâs their first or their second intentionâ to remain in Mexico, Mr. RamĂrez said of asylum petitioners.
Even then the milk would have a suspicious flavor, or post-mortem smell, I apprehend; it would be the same thing, by second intention, as the surgeons say.
Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.
"Abracadabra is a second intention" is neither true nor false.
It is the designation of these outward things which forms the âfirst intentionâ of names; and it is only at a later stage, when thought comes to observe its own modes, that names, looked upon as predicables and universals, are taken in their âsecond intention.â
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