Well-meaning: alternatives and connections

Intention; purpose; design; scheme.

Animating spirit; intention; temper.

To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kin…

To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation…

To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aw…

(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it

To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.

The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.

A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form o…

Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to g…

That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.

Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.

A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final…

The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meani…

Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if render…

The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private o…