intimations

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So unexpected were his intimations -- so imperative his manner, that she was, in a degree, bereft for the time of will.

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  1. The act of intimating or announcing.
  2. An announcement; a formal declaration or notification: as, an intimation from the Foreign Office. The intimations and surveys necessary for obtaining drawbacks, debentures, or bounties, according to the Excise laws. Ure, Dict., I. 576.
  3. Information indirectly or covertly imparted; a suggestion or hint; an implied meaning: as, an intimation that one's presence is not desired; intimation of danger. Besides the more solid parts of learning, there are several little intimations to be met with on medals, that are very pleasant to such as are conversant in this kind of study. Addison, Ancient Medals, i. If they [the Sadducees] had rejected the prophets, he [Josephus] would have charged them with it expressly, and not have left us to collect it from oblique hints and dark intimations. Jortin, Remarks on Eccles. Hist., App. Let us compare with the exact details of Dante the dim intimations of Milton. Macaulay, Milton.

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  • A genre film with apocalyptic intimations, Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel features some suspense set pieces that Hitchcock would have been proud to put his name on. —  In The Company Of Glenn
  • That, plus the violent intimations, the easily debunked scare-mongering rumors of brainwashing coercion of young people, and the hysterical cries of "fascism," "Marxism," and "socialism" (make up your minds, eh?) leave these commentators looking like they are not speaking from a position of good faith. —  WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
  • He always had a strong inkling that his term would be cut short - the poems are littered with hints and clues and intimations, all of which we managed to miss at the time - but he compensated by making more friends than most of us will in several reincarnations.
  • Ridicule is always of unfriendly intimations, and the sound served to put Nehemiah on his guard anew. —  The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
  • Lord Theign, confessedly and amiably interested, had accepted these intimations--yet with the very blandness that was not accessible to hustling and was never forgetful of its standing privilege of criticism. —  The Outcry
 

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