Both Uses of
implication
in
Great Expectations
- It struck me as a singular implication that you couldn't be out of a counting-house, you know, and look about you; but I silently deferred to his experience.†
Chpt 22 (definition 1) *
- Now, there was no reasonable evidence to implicate any person but this woman, and on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it Mr. Jaggers principally rested his case.†
Chpt 48 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (implication as in: the implication is that...) Something that follows from something else.The thing that follows could be:
- something suggested indirectly (not said directly)
- something that can be concluded (often a logical consequence)
- something that results from something else
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(2) (implication as in: Her implication in the crime) involvement in or the suggestion that someone was involved in something -- especially a crime