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intendiments

intendiments is the plural of intendiment.

Meaning of intendiment

Noun

intendiment (countable and uncountable, plural intendiments)

  1. (obsolete) Understanding; careful consideration, attention.
    • be nought hereat dismayd, / Till well ye wote by graue intendiment, / What woman, and wherefore doth me vpbrayd […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Intention, objective.
    • The noble Mayd still standing all this vewd, / And merveild at his straunge intendiment.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about intendiments

What is intendiments the plural of?
Intendiments is the plural of intendiment.

Words near intendiments in the dictionary

  1. intenders
  2. intendest
  3. intendeth
  4. intendible
  5. intendiment
  6. intendiments
  7. intendin'
  8. intending
  9. intendingly
  10. intendings
  11. intendment

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