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intending

noun B1
  1. The process by which one intends something; intention.

Plural intendings

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With a snappy “Good-morning, Pitcher,” Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 16 · C1
Bell’s spruce grove as usual, fully intending to stay only long enough to “pick a chew.” But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce “Master’s coming.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 116 · C1
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 126 · B2
When they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exasperate herself as much as possible against Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 218 · B2

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