とする (tosuru)

Sense; seem (sensory or psychological experience)

Meaning & usage

Attaching とする to a verb's volitional form (しよう, 見せびらかそう) means the subject tries or attempts to do that action, often without stating whether it succeeds. In 言わんとする, the classical negative ん replaces ない, giving the sense of what someone is trying to say.

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