All 3 Uses
imply
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Ethan Frome
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- So marked was the change in her manner, such depths of sad initiation did it imply, that, with some doubts as to my delicacy, I put the case anew to my village oracle, Harmon Gow; but got for my pains only an uncomprehending grunt.†
Chpt Openimply = suggest (say indirectly)
- I had been told that Frome was poor ... but I had not supposed him to be in such want as Harmon's words implied
Chpt Open *implied = suggested
- A rapid calculation showed Ethan that Zeena could not be back at the farm before the following evening.... "If I'd supposed you'd 'a' made any objection to Jotham Powell's driving me over—" she began again, as though his silence had implied refusal.†
Chpt 3implied = suggested (said indirectly)
Definitions:
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(1)
(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)