Both Uses of
intimation
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- He had not then the least intimation of my intention to set up there or anywhere.†
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- What it was when they did receive it I never learnt, for they did not communicate it to me, but sent a long message to the Assembly drawn and signed by Paris, reciting my paper, complaining of its want of formality, as a rudeness on my part, and giving a flimsy justification of their conduct, adding that they should be willing to accommodate matters if the Assembly would send out some person of candour to treat with them for that purpose, intimating thereby that I was not such.†
Definition:
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(intimation) a subtle hint or indirect suggestion