All 4 Uses of
intimation
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Nor did his demeanour change when the withdrawal of the prison keeper left him face to face with the woman, whose absorbed notice of him, in the crowd, had intimated so close a relation between himself and her.†
p. 67.5 *intimated = hinted or suggested
- Or, must she receive those intimations—so obscure, yet so distinct—as truth?
p. 81.1intimations = indications of something
- And the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale's best discerning friends, as we have intimated, very reasonably imagined that the hand of Providence had done all this for the purpose—besought in so many public and domestic and secret prayers—of restoring the young minister to health.†
p. 117.1intimated = hinted or suggested
- But there was something in the latter's expression that warned back the magistrate, although a man not readily obeying the vague intimations that pass from one spirit to another.
p. 234.9intimations = indications
Definition:
a subtle hint or something indicated indirectly