Both Uses of
infer
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Like all village girls, she was well grounded in the Holy Scriptures, and had dutifully studied the histories of Aholah and Aholibah, and knew the inferences to be drawn therefrom.†
Chpt 2 *inferences = things concluded or guessed by reasoning
- XVIII Angel Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure, but as an appreciative voice, a long regard of fixed, abstracted eyes, and a mobility of mouth somewhat too small and delicately lined for a man's, though with an unexpectedly firm close of the lower lip now and then; enough to do away with any inference of indecision.†
Chpt 3inference = conclusion (reached by reasoning)
Definition:
to figure out or guess by reasoning