All 3 Uses of
implication
in
1984, by Orwell
- Very occasionally some person whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time forever.
p. 46.0implicate = suggest involvement in a crime by
- It was easier to confess everything and implicate everybody.
p. 242.8 *
- He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody.
p. 297.8implicating = suggesting involvement (in a crime) by
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(implication as in: Her implication in the crime) involvement in or the suggestion that someone was involved in something -- especially a crime