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intention

English

Alternative forms

  • entention (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French intention, entention, from Old French entencion, from Latin intentio, intentionem. Compare intent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?t?n??n/
  • Hyphenation: in?ten?tion
  • Rhymes: -?n??n
  • Homophone: intension

Noun

intention (countable and uncountable, plural intentions)

  1. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
    • a. 1784, attributed to Samuel Johnson
      Hell is paved with good intentions.
    • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  2. (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
    • , I.iii.3:
      cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].
  3. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
    • it is attention : when the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study
  4. (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
    • 1732, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments …, Prop. II, p.159:
      In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts; [].
  5. (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
  6. (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.
    • 2007, Carie Ann Braun, Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health, p.49:
      When healing occurs by primary intention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.

Synonyms

  • (purpose behind a specific action): See also Thesaurus:intention

Derived terms

  • counter-intention
  • intentional
  • secondary intention
  • the road to hell is paved with good intentions
  • well-intentioned

Related terms

  • intend
  • intent
  • well-intended

Translations

Verb

intention (third-person singular simple present intentions, present participle intentioning, simple past and past participle intentioned)

  1. Intend

Translations

References

  • intention at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • intention in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Finnish

Noun

intention

  1. Genitive singular form of intentio.

French

Etymology

From Middle French entention, from Old French entencion, borrowed from Latin intenti?, intenti?nem. Respelled intention in Middle French to more closely match the Classical Latin form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.t??.sj??/

Noun

intention f (plural intentions)

  1. intention
Derived terms
  • intentionnel
  • Further reading

    • “intention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

    Middle French

    Noun

    intention f (plural intentions)

    1. Alternative form of entention

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    rationale

    English

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /?æ.???n??l/
    • (US) IPA(key): /?æ.???næl/
    • Rhymes: -æl

    Etymology 1

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin rati?n?le.

    Noun

    rationale (plural rationales or rationalia)

    1. An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    2. A justification or rationalization for something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    Synonyms
    • (explanation): reasoning, rationalization
    • (justification): reasoning
    Translations

    Etymology 2

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin rati?n?le.

    Noun

    rationale (plural rationales)

    1. (rare, religion) A liturgical vestment worn by some Christian bishops of various denominations.
      • 2015, Gregory Dipippo, "Rationale Worn by the Bishop of Eichstätt"[1]
        the local bishop, H.E. Gregor Maria Hanke, is shown wearing that rarest of liturgical garments, the rationale.
    Translations

    Anagrams

    • alienator, taeniolar

    Latin

    Adjective

    rati?n?le

    1. nominative singular neuter of rati?n?lis (rational, of reason)
    2. vocative singular neuter of rati?n?lis (rational, of reason)
    3. accusative singular neuter of rati?n?lis (rational, of reason)

    Noun

    rati?n?le n (genitive rati?n?lis); third declension

    1. The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests (Translation of ??????? (logeîon) or ?????? (lógion, oracle) in the Septuagint version of Exodus 28.)
      • Vulgate Bible, Exodus 28:15
        Rationale quoque iudicii facies opere polymito iuxta texturam superumeralis ex auro hyacintho et purpura coccoque bis tincto et bysso retorta (And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with skillful work; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shall you make it.)
    2. a rationale worn by a bishop

    Declension

    Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

    References

    • rationale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
    • rationale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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