Both Uses of
implication
in
Lord of the Flies
- "There was a ship."
Jack, faced at once with too many awful implications, ducked away from them.
...
"We might have gone home—"
p. 70..6 *implications = things that can be concluded from knowing something else
- Half-relieved, half-daunted by the implication of further terrors, the savages murmured again.
p. 161..0implication = something that results from something else
Definition:
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(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