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noun

Implication n.

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. "Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts."

An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words. "Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do."

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Etymology of 'Implication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Implication" Quotes from Famous Books

... "spiritual discernment," he makes a tacit assertion which ought not to be allowed to pass unchallenged. What is that assertion or implication? It is the implication that there is a spiritual discernment which is distinct from mental discernment. What does that mean? It means that man has other means of ...

— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford

... slaves deserted by rebels escaping from them or coming under control of the United States and slaves of rebels found on Union soil should be deemed captives and set free. Then again, there were enacted other provisions, which by implication permitted the employment of slaves in the United States army that they might work their own enfranchisement. Under this law the President was empowered to enroll and employ contrabands in such service as they were fitted for. Their mothers, wives, and children, if owned ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various

... story-books. Nor did the two ever draw their chairs together in the middle of the stage close to the footlights, and have it out—as at the theatre. When Truesdale spoke at all he spoke casually—with more or less of implication or insinuation—to his mother or his sisters. When he spoke not at all, he acted—and his actions spoke as loudly and effectually as actions are held commonly to do. His father, therefore, learned presently, and with ...

— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... friend. On the other hand no one who dwelt under Zikali's blanket, to use the Kaffir idiom, would be touched, because he was looked on as half divine and therefore everything under it down to the rat in his thatch was sacred. Now Zikali by implication and Nombe with emphasis, had promised to safeguard these two. Surely, therefore, they would run less risk in the Black Kloof than here at Ulundi, if ever they ...

— Finished • H. Rider Haggard

... waiting. What it is Leroy would never do?" The voice carried a scoff with it, the implication that his very presence had ...

— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine

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