All 3 Uses of
intimation
in
Emma
- They were a family of the name of Martin, whom Emma well knew by character, as renting a large farm of Mr. Knightley, and residing in the parish of Donwell—very creditably, she believed—she knew Mr. Knightley thought highly of them—but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- Emma perceived that her taste was not the only taste on which Mr. Weston depended, and felt, that to be the favourite and intimate of a man who had so many intimates and confidantes, was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- —It was the first intimation of his being returned from London.†
Chpt 3.13-14 *
Definition:
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(intimation) a subtle hint or indirect suggestion