All 6 Uses of
imply
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The eldest wore the white tie, high waistcoat, and thin-brimmed hat of the regulation curate; the second was the normal undergraduate; the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes and attire, implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrance to his professional groove.†
Chpt 1implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- The remark, singular for a dairy-yard, was murmured by the voice behind the dun cow; but as nobody understood the reference, no notice was taken, except that the narrator seemed to think it might imply scepticism as to his tale.†
Chpt 3 *imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- Decrepit families imply decrepit wills, decrepit conduct.†
Chpt 5
- Why, you wicked man, a cloister implies a monk, and a monk Roman Catholicism.†
Chpt 5implies = suggests (says indirectly)
- He had distinctly implied that he would at least let her know of the locality to which he had journeyed; but he had not sent a line to notify his address.†
Chpt 5implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- He would wait till Mrs Durbeyfield could inform him of Tess's return, which her letter implied to be soon.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence