All 3 Uses of
imply
in
Hard Times
- She supervised the meal officially, but implied that in her own stately person she considered lunch a weakness.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- He paused to look at her, and, still holding her hand, said: 'Louisa, I have not considered it essential to ask you one question, because the possibility implied in it appeared to me to be too remote.†
Chpt 1.15
- She had never been well within her daughter's knowledge; but, she had declined within the last few days, had continued sinking all through the night, and was now as nearly dead, as her limited capacity of being in any state that implied the ghost of an intention to get out of it, allowed.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence