All 7 Uses of
imply
in
Great Expectations
- It was not very polite to herself, I thought, to imply that I should be told lies by her even if I did ask questions.†
Chpt 2 *
- My father is Miss Havisham's cousin; not that that implies familiar intercourse between them, for he is a bad courtier and will not propitiate her."†
Chpt 22
- This certainly had not a profitable appearance, and I shook my head as if I would imply that it would be difficult to lay by much accumulative capital from such a source of income.†
Chpt 22
- "I don't mean to imply that he won't," said I, "but it might make you hold your tongue about us and our money, I should think."†
Chpt 26
- All the children of the village, and most of the women, were admiring these sable warders and the closed windows of the house and forge; and as I came up, one of the two warders (the postboy) knocked at the door, —implying that I was far too much exhausted by grief to have strength remaining to knock for myself.†
Chpt 35
- I resented it, because it seemed to imply that he expected me to respond to it.†
Chpt 39
- Told would seem to imply verbal communication.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence