All 8 Uses of
implication
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- We have reason to know that Miss Snevellicci IS the lady who was implicated in that mysterious and romantic affair, and whose conduct on that occasion did no less honour to her head and heart, than do her histrionic triumphs to her brilliant genius.'†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- 'Morleena was a fine baby,' remarked Mr Kenwigs; as if this were rather an attack, by implication, upon the family.†
Chpt 36 (definition 2) *
- Mrs Nickleby confirming her daughter with the best possible grace—for there was patronage in that too, and a kind of implication that she had a discerning taste in such matters, and was something of a critic—John Browdie proceeded to consider the words of some north-country ditty, and to take his wife's recollection respecting the same.†
Chpt 45 (definition 2)
- 'This is your pocket-book,' said Ralph, producing one from his coat; 'the certificates of your first marriage and of the boy's birth, and your wife's two letters, and every other paper that can support these statements directly or by implication, are here, are they?'†
Chpt 45 (definition 2)
- …to resist the proceedings taken on the other side for the recovery of the youth as slowly and artfully as possible, and meanwhile to beset Snawley (with whom it was clear the main falsehood must rest); to lead him, if possible, into contradictory and conflicting statements; to harass him by all available means; and so to practise on his fears, and regard for his own safety, as to induce him to divulge the whole scheme, and to give up his employer and whomsoever else he could implicate.†
Chpt 59 (definition 1)
- The information being promptly carried to Snawley that Squeers was in custody—he was not told for what—that worthy, first extorting a promise that he should be kept harmless, declared the whole tale concerning Smike to be a fiction and forgery, and implicated Ralph Nickleby to the fullest extent.†
Chpt 59 (definition 1)
- How far you may be implicated in this last transaction, or how far the person who is now in custody may criminate you, you best know.†
Chpt 59 (definition 1)
- But, justice must take its course against the parties implicated in the plot against this poor, unoffending, injured lad.†
Chpt 59 (definition 1) *
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