Duty and Intent

Duty

Duty noun - A charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use.

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Intent and duty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Intent" instead a noun "Duty".

Intent noun - Something that one hopes or intends to accomplish.

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Duty and intent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Duty" instead a noun "Intent".

good	good duty	good intent
full	full duty	full intent
pure	pure duty	pure intent
usual	usual duty	usual intent
Other adjectives: specific, original, noble, true, actual, real, main, moral, sole, primary.

In Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha FORCE, when the Special Duty Section 6 are arresting Hades Vandein, his killing intent is so strong that everyone sees a hallucination how he slices Teana down.

Source: Killing Intent
In a flashback, we see how the X-Men were done in: Wolverine and Jubilee are doing monitor duty when dozens of supervillains break in, intent on killing everybody.

Source: My God What Have I Done / Comic Books
Max Payne 3's loading screens were similar in intent to Call of Duty's, albeit in a much more "seamless" manner by shifting from realtime cutscenes to pre-rendered Bink videos whenever a level is loaded.

Source: Loading Screen

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