Literary notes about Intend (AI summary)
In literature, the term “intend” is frequently employed to reveal a character’s planned actions or inner resolve. It often denotes a deliberate purpose, whether that is setting out on a journey as hinted by a planned hatter visit [1] or expressing a deep emotional need, as when a character seeks to warm themselves beside another [2]. Authors also use it to underscore future commitments that carry both mundane and significant weight, such as deciding to leave a room [3] or outlining life-changing projects [4]. Even in dramatic and rhetorical contexts, “intend” adds layers of determination and premeditation, illustrating not just what is planned but also hinting at the character’s intricate motivations [5, 6].
- We intend to go to the hatter's early tomorrow morning.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed - “What for?” “Because I am perishing with cold and desire, and intend warming myself in your bed.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Jane was already so much recovered as to intend leaving her room for a couple of hours that evening.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - I intend to take a studio in Paris and shut myself up till I have finished a great picture I have in my head.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Hungary, hereby give notice that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to be known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - thou dost stone my heart, And mak'st me call what I intend to do A murder, which I thought a sacrifice: I saw the handkerchief.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
