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well-inˈtentioned, ppl. a.
1. Of a person: Having good intentions.
1598Parsons in Archpriest Controv. (Camden) I. 25 Yf the magistrates were knowen to be godly and well intentioned men. 1716Addison Freeholder No. 50 ⁋2 Among us, This has been a mark of such well-intentioned persons, as would betray their country, if they were able. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 681 Believing me a well-intentioned body, but a little bewildered by dealing too much among heathen authors. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. 115 Dame Banks was in fact a well-intentioned, worthy woman. 1839Burgon Sir T. Gresham I. ii. 65 The truth seems to be, that however well intentioned, he did not possess the requisite abilities for the office he filled. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 327 These well-intentioned, though mistaken, men.
2. Of actions, utterances, etc.: Due to or based upon good intentions.
1848Dickens Dombey iii, Polly triumphed not a little in the success of her well-intentioned scheme. 1875Jevons Money viii. 81 Many well-intentioned efforts to reform a currency have thus been frustrated. 1885American XI. 44 A well-intentioned argument.
Hence well-inˈtentionedness.
1799Coleridge Lett. (1895) 315, I see enough of the boy to be fully convinced of his goodness and well-intentionedness. |