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Implication

noun

Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied). Synonyms: deduction, entailment.

A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred. Synonyms: import, significance. "The expectation was spread both by word and by implication"

An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.

A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form 'if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false. Synonyms: conditional relation, logical implication.

A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement).

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... was obviously to bid for royal patronage, but the intended victim was too astute to be caught. In eulogizing the Emperor Frederick (c. 1400) the author found abundant opportunity to praise by implication his namesake, but unfortunately for the success of the play none of the royal family "vouchsafed to honour it with their Presence." Mrs. Haywood complains that hers "was the only new Performance this Season, which had not received a ...

— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

... potency of his being to remain dormant without suffering a loss; and on this highest level of all the loss must be incalculable. "Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart will never find its rest until it rests on Thee." That confession of Augustine is Eucken's confession also; and it is the implication which such a confession contains that constitutes the significance of his message to the world. He is in the line not only of the philosophers but of the prophets and the mystics. The ladder of knowledge reaches, like Jacob's ladder, up to heaven itself—to that pure atmosphere ...

— An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy • W. Tudor Jones

... familiarity with prologues and first books and early chapters which contrasts ominously with the comparative infrequency with which he makes citations from the middle and latter parts of most of the works he mentions."[1] Surely the implication is unjust. Stationers used to let out on hire parts of books or quires. Manuscript volumes were also often made up of parts of works by several authors. Books being scarce, it was preferable to make some volumes select miscellanies, ...

— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage

... How are you to know? what warrant or guarantee have you for any such future? Do you judge by the past? by the signs of to-day? I tell you this American nation will resort to any means—will pledge anything, by word or implication—to secure the end for which it fights; and will break its pledges just so soon as it can, and with whomsoever it can with impunity. You, and your children, and your children's children after you, will go to the wall unless it has need of you in ...

— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson

... for it is known that they were written symbolically, or as parables, and were not intended to be literally interpreted. They have a spiritual significance. We are, however, not interested here so much with this spiritual sense as we are with the literal implication of the translation. Therefore, according to this literal meaning of the two texts, if we accept them to prove that animals have no future life, we are forced to believe by at least fourteen passages, of equal if not greater power, that man shares their same fate after death. ...

— The Human Side of Animals • Royal Dixon

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