The Devil's Dictionary: Intention

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
INSURRECTION
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INTENTION

-n.

The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

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