All 18 Uses
intimation
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- As I intimated just now, you'll be tired some day.†
Chpt 29intimated = hinted or suggested
- Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles.†
Chpt 31
- Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here Mrs. Osmond usually sat—though she was not in her most customary place to-night—and that a circle of more especial intimates gathered about the fire.†
Chpt 37intimates = hints or suggests
- Henrietta Stackpole had not been invited, as her departure from America, announced to Isabel by Mr. Goodwood, was in fact frustrated by the duties of her profession; but she had sent a letter, less gracious than Madame Merle's, intimating that, had she been able to cross the Atlantic, she would have been present not only as a witness but as a critic.†
Chpt 39intimating = hinting or suggesting
- Madame Merle slowly rose; she had given Isabel a look as rapid as the intimation that had gleamed before our heroine a few moments before.†
Chpt 40 *intimation = a hint or suggestion of something
- It was Gilbert's constant intimation that for him nothing in life was a prize; that he treated as from equal to equal with the most distinguished people in the world, and that his daughter had only to look about her to pick out a prince.†
Chpt 41
- She would rest upon this till the contrary should be proved; proved more effectually than by a cynical intimation of Osmond's.†
Chpt 42
- Isabel had an undefined conviction that to serve for another person than their proprietor traditions must be of a thoroughly superior kind; but she nevertheless assented to this intimation that she too must march to the stately music that floated down from unknown periods in her husband's past; she who of old had been so free of step, so desultory, so devious, so much the reverse of processional.†
Chpt 42
- Very often, however, she felt afraid, and it used to come over her, as I have intimated, that she had deceived him at the very first.†
Chpt 42intimated = hinted or suggested
- And he intimated that he had discovered exactly the corner he had been looking for—a quiet nook in one of the smaller rooms, where the music would come to them faintly and not interfere with conversation.†
Chpt 43
- She felt no bitterness toward her father; there was no bitterness in her heart; there was only the sweetness of fidelity to Edward Rosier, and a strange, exquisite intimation that she could prove it better by remaining single than even by marrying him.†
Chpt 45intimation = a hint or suggestion of something
- "You're certainly not fortunate in your intimates; I wish you might make a new collection," he said to her one morning in reference to nothing visible at the moment, but in a tone of ripe reflection which deprived the remark of all brutal abruptness.†
Chpt 47intimates = hints or suggests
- She had found her profit not in the gross device of borrowing money, but in the more refined idea of introducing one of her intimates to the young woman's fresh and ingenuous fortune.†
Chpt 49
- Half an hour before Isabel would have listened very coldly to an intimation that she should ever feel a desire for the sympathy of her sister-in-law, and there can be no better proof of her present embarrassment than the fact that she almost clutched at this lady's fluttering attention.†
Chpt 51intimation = a hint or suggestion of something
- She had come in all unperceived; she had a strange smile on her thin lips and her whole face had grown in an hour a shining intimation.†
Chpt 51
- Isabel had often wondered what she thought of the apparent relations of her father with his wife; but never by a glance, by an intimation, had she let it be seen that she deemed them deficient in an air of intimacy.†
Chpt 52
- She saw herself, in the distant years, still in the attitude of a woman who had her life to live, and these intimations contradicted the spirit of the present hour.†
Chpt 53intimations = hints or suggestions of something
- And then in a moment she added that he had seen Lord Warburton the day before; an announcement which startled Isabel a little, as it seemed an intimation that this personage was in the neighbourhood and that an accident might bring them together.†
Chpt 54intimation = a hint or suggestion of something
Definitions:
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(1)
(intimation) a subtle hint or something indicated indirectly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)