Both Uses of
implication
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- We regard this case as one of murder, and the evidence may implicate not only your friend Mr. Stapleton, but his wife as well.†
Chpt 13 *
- She was ready to warn Sir Henry so far as she could without implicating her husband, and again and again she tried to do so.†
Chpt 15 *
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