"authorial intent" meaning in English

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        "The intent of an author as encoded in their work."
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
          "word": "作者意圖"
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        {
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          "roman": "zuòzhě yìtú",
          "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
          "word": "作者意图"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
          "word": "kirjoittajan tarkoitus"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "intention de l’auteur"
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          "roman": "ávtorskij zámysel",
          "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "а́вторский за́мысел"
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          "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "intención autoral"
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        "authorial intent"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
      "word": "作者意圖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zuòzhě yìtú",
      "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
      "word": "作者意图"
    },
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      "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
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      "sense": "intent of an author as encoded in their work",
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