Both Uses of
implication
in
Babbitt
- And, once away from the familiar implications of home, they were two men together.†
Chpt 19 *
- Instantly all the indignations which had been dominating him and the spiritual dramas through which he had struggled became pallid and absurd before the ancient and overwhelming realities, the standard and traditional realities, of sickness and menacing death, the long night, and the thousand steadfast implications of married life.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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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