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Intimation   /ˌɪntəmˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Intimation  n.  
1.
The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
2.
Announcement; declaration. "They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished."
3.
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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"Intimation" Quotes from Famous Books



... party writer, not from principle, but employment, and had felt the rod of power, in order to avoid a second exertion of which, he now found it convenient to skulk about in the country, for he had received intimation of a warrant from the secretary of state, who wanted to be better acquainted with his person. Notwithstanding the ticklish nature of his situation, it was become so habitual to him to think and speak in a certain manner, ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... in the passage were the first official intimation Sheen had received that his shortcomings were public property. The word "Funk!" shouted through his keyhole, had not unnaturally given him an inkling as to the ...
— The White Feather • P. G. Wodehouse
... in the least that she intended to save him the trouble of exercising his own genius. Left, therefore, as he imagined, to his own inventions, he sat down, and produced the following morceau, which was transmitted to Miss Appleby, before his sister and counsellor had the least intimation of the affair:— ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... The only intimation of the Queen's fate which her daughter and her sister-in-law were allowed to receive was through hearing her sentence cried by the newsman. But "we could not persuade ourselves that she was dead," writes ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... intimation I ever had of the zuend-nadel guns. I should like to know when and by whom they ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 46, Saturday, September 14, 1850 • Various


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