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▪ I. intending, vbl. n. rare.|ɪnˈtɛndɪŋ|
[f. intend v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. intend; intention, attention, stretching, etc.; a purpose.
a1536Calisto & Melibæa in Hazl. Dodsley I. 63 God reward thee for thy gentle intending. 1611Florio, Intendimento,..a purpose, an intendment or intending. 1876H. Maudsley Physiol. Mind i. 6 An unavoidable intending of the mind to the realities of nature.
▪ II. intending, ppl. a.|ɪnˈtɛndɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That intends; having intentions.
1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 233 Such as are sensible..that their well-intending simplicity hath been imposed on. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. x. §2 (1819) 143 The intending mind of a Creator.
b. Qualifying the agent-noun corresponding to an inf. after the verb intend; hence, by extension, with other ns. used proleptically: Purposing to be, that is (such) in intention.
1788Burke Sp. agst. Hastings Wks. XIII. 124 If he gave the Nabob over to an intending murderer [etc.]. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xi, Marriageable men, or what the new English calls ‘intending bridegrooms’. 1884Athenæum 19 Jan. 90/3 Intending subscribers should communicate with the author.
Hence inˈtendingly adv., with intention, intentionally.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. §37. 162 We do not act fatally only, but electively and intendingly. |