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Intent   /ɪntˈɛnt/   Listen
Intent

noun
1.
An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.  Synonyms: aim, design, intention, purpose.  "Good intentions are not enough" , "It was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs" , "He made no secret of his designs"
2.
The intended meaning of a communication.  Synonyms: purport, spirit.
adjective
1.
Giving or marked by complete attention to.  Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, wrapped.  "Then wrapped in dreams" , "So intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred" , "Rapt with wonder" , "Wrapped in thought"



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"Intent" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleased to send all the papers confided to you for him, to Mr. Thomas Barclay, our Consul at Morocco, with the letter addressed to him, which is delivered you open, and by which you will perceive that he is, in that event, substituted to every intent and purpose in the place of Admiral Jones. You will be pleased not to pass any of the papers confided to you on ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... dropped down on my knees and felt feverishly in the undergrowth. Of course it was a silly thing to do—there might have been snakes and all manner of noxious crawling things there—but I didn't think of that at the time. I was too intent on solving the riddle. My hand touched something.... I straightened up ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh

... on the lithe, shiny bodies of the hungry blacks the while, but they were too much intent upon feasting to take ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn

... proprietor, who sat at the desk, nor at the waiter, who had helped the week before to overpower Hertzog. He seemed more intent on watching the minion of the law who paced back and forth in front of the door, although he once glanced at the other minion who sat almost out of sight at the back of the cafe, scrutinising all who came in, especially those who had parcels of ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr

... time his business-connections extended themselves; he was associated with other men more intent than he upon their aim; although not wealthy, years might make him so; his name commanded respect. Something of his old indifference lingered about him; it was seldom that he was in earnest; he drifted with the tide, and, except to maintain a clear integrity before God and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various


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