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/ˌɪmpləkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... rose, and in a second the small man and Amidon followed his example. Carroll greeted them all with a cordiality which had in it a certain implication of admiring confidence. Not a man there but felt at once that this new-comer had a most flattering recognition of himself in particular, to the exclusion of all the others. It was odd how he contrived to produce this impression, but produce it he did. ...

— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... he be a subject of the United States, and have taken, expressly or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is retained on the roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the throne, and whose existence is a denial of the first proposition in the ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various

... Neverout in literary criticism. If she had been a professional critic (which is perhaps impossible), she might have safeguarded her dictum by the addition, "according to its own scheme and division." It is the neglect of this implication which has caused the demurs. "'Natural!'" and "'true!'" they say, "why, the Pastoral is the most frankly and in fact outrageously unnatural and false of all literary kinds. Does not Urfe himself warn ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... book, entitled Divinity and Philosophy Dissected, and attributed by implication to Randall, was published in Amsterdam in 1644, ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... to the next point that is here, viz. that this possession is as sure as God can make it. 'Thou maintainest my lot.' Thou art Thyself both my heritage and the guardian of my heritage. He that possesses God, says the text, by implication, is lifted above all fear ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

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