All 3 Uses
intimation
in
The Minister's Black Veil
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- A few shook their sagacious heads, intimating that they could penetrate the mystery; while one or two affirmed that there was no mystery at all, but only that Mr. Hooper's eyes were so weakened by the midnight lamp, as to require a shade.†
*intimating = hinting or suggesting
- The color rose into her cheeks as she intimated the nature of the rumors that were already abroad in the village.†
intimated = hinted or suggested
- This was what gave plausibility to the whispers, that Mr. Hooper's conscience tortured him for some great crime too horrible to be entirely concealed, or otherwise than so obscurely intimated.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(intimation) a subtle hint or something indicated indirectly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)