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/ˌɪntəmˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Intimation n.

The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

Announcement; declaration. "They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished."

A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design. "Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intimation" Quotes from Famous Books

... that she was adopted. As far as we were concerned it was dismissed from our minds. She was three years old when she was born to us, and from then on we were her father and her mother. To many who knew her and loved her, this article will be the first intimation they ever have received that Marjorie was not our own flesh and blood. It was her pride and boast that she was like her mother, but had her father's eyes. Both her mother and I have smiled hundreds of times, as people meeting her ...

— Making the House a Home • Edgar A. Guest

... first intimation of her husband's jealous suspicions with incredulous astonishment. It is not that, like Desdemona, she does not or cannot understand; but she will not. When he accuses her more plainly, she ...

— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson

... end of the year approached, Church Leet wondered whether he would hold the annual banquet; but Captain Monk was not likely to forego that. Why should he? The invitations went out for it; and they contained an intimation that the ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various

... letter and read it. It was an intimation from the bank that in consequence of the bearer cheque for five hundred pounds presented and cashed the week before, Mordaunt's ...

— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

... reflected, and I crept down the steps one by one, and in due course reached the bottom. To the left was a doorway, through which came the glimmer of light. Passing through the doorway, I came into a room with a stone floor. The light, which was no stronger than the very earliest intimation of a winter's dawn, seemed to issue in a most unusual way from the far corner of this apartment near the ceiling. I directed my course towards it, and in the transit made violent contact with some metallic object, which proved to be an upright iron shaft, perhaps three inches in diameter, running ...

— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett

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