All 5 Uses of
implication
in
Bleak House
- Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1) *
- Mrs. Piper, as in duty bound, is of the same opinion, holding that a private station is better than public applause, and thanking heaven for her own (and, by implication, Mrs. Perkins') respectability.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- He has had something—he don't know what—to do with so much in this connexion that is mysterious that it is possible he may even be implicated, without knowing it, in the present transaction.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- "Well, sir," says Mr. George, "this man with me is the other party implicated in this unfortunate affair—nominally, only nominally— and my sole object is to prevent his getting into trouble on my account.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- "Excuse me, miss," said Mr. Guppy, "but we had better not travel out of the record into implication.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (implication as in: Her implication in the crime) involvement in or the suggestion that someone was involved in something -- especially a crime
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(2) (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