ppl. a. Characterized by a right and sincere intention; well-meant.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xiv. (1912), 437. Especially setting forth their noble gratefulnes, in never forgetting wel-intended services.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, I. xxvi. 83. So, by bad circumstances, [we] poyson a well-intended principall.
1763–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 263. The meanest, well-intended labours may claim thy patronage.
1777. Johnson, Lett. to Dr. Dodd, 26 June, in Boswell. In requital of those well-intended offices which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge.
1827. G. Higgins, Celtic Druids, 66. The perhaps well-intended but nonsensical and fruitless efforts of our priests.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 208/2. The pamphlet is well-intended, sensible, and temperate.
