All 5 Uses of
implication
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.†
Chpt 1
- You can understand that this register and diary may implicate some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered.†
Chpt 5
- And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately implicated in the matter.†
Chpt 6
- At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance.†
Chpt 10 *
- This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar.†
Chpt 10 *
Definitions:
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(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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(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