subintent
nounEtymology From sub- + intent.
1
A secondary or subsidiary intent; submeaning.
- He referred to the dryness of this sort of day pointedly; but Judith missed his subintent, and conceived that the position was covered by the approach of Bullett the groom, with a pail of water for the horse.1909, William De Morgan, It Never Can Happen Again, volume 2, page 661: