by-view

plural by-views

1. A private or selfish view, aim or purpose.

   they no longer go to church; or if they do so, they do it from habit, or with certain byviews

   1869, David Pieter Faure, Modern Theology

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   [N]o Man's Importunities ſhall weary him, no Man's Flattery ſhall bribe him, no By-views of his own ſhall miſlead him: He will arm himſelf perfectly in his Integrity; […]

   1706 October 8 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 415

   finding no pure sweetness and fatisfaction in any commanded duty, when their by-views are out of sight

   1793, John Smith, A Mirror

   Synonyms: hidden agenda