INTENDED

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] Spenser.

2.
a.

Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper.

3.
a.

Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.

4.
n.

One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover. If it were not that I might appear to disparage his intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be throwing herself away. Dickens.

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