Both Uses of
infer
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- A cynical inference was irresistible by Gabriel Oak as he regarded the scene, generous though he fain would have been.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- A meditation on the obvious inference was indulged in by all, and during its continuance each directed his vision into the ashpit, which glowed like a desert in the tropics under a vertical sun, shaping their eyes long and liny, partly because of the light, partly from the depth of the subject discussed.†
Chpt 7-9
Definition:
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(infer) to figure out or guess by reasoning