intimation

• “This intimation is the proceed of mere love, which, whether you embrace or no, I shall still continue all those good wishes and offices of respect that may become”

  Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)

• “William Jefferson, known to be less than scrupulous (the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, and the intimation is that he is connected to some shady individuals from South America), re-elected to Congress in a landslide, primarily due the rantings of the autocratic sheriff of Jefferson Parish.”

  Think Progress » Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?

• “I have received intimation from the Editor that the record will appear in the 2007 issue of the Records Book under the category of ‘Communication’.”

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• “Q Did you get any readout on Vice President Mondale's meeting, and did he get any intimation from the Indonesians that they will stick with the IMF reforms?”

  Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry

• “It might be the handkerchief sent back to her, it might be some other plain intimation that he had changed his mind.”

  Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

• “No intimation from the Confederate army, or from the men controlling it, in relation to a peace compromise has ever come to”

  Foreign and Colonial News

• “An intimation from the War-office appeared in all the newspapers, calling on half-pay officers either to sell their commissions or to hold themselves in readiness to join some regiment.”

  Roughing It in the Bush

• “The first check to her duteous demonstrations was a formal intimation from the fallen majesty of England, that I was in no manner to be intruded upon her.”

  II.8

• “The relating of this matter so briefly, is a plain intimation to us, that we must not look that way for a confirmation of our faith; we have a more sure word of prophecy.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

• “This is a plain intimation that in the days of the Messiah an end should be put, not only to the sacrifices of atonement, but to those of praise and acknowledgment which were instituted by the ceremonial law; and, instead of them, spiritual sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving are accepted -- the calves of our lips, not the calves of the stall, Heb. xiii.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

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