All 3 Uses of
intimation
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The youth looked a little surprised, or puzzled, or something, and intimated that he had been wondering to himself what I had wanted to ask the girl all those questions for.†
Chpt 11intimated = hinted or suggested
- I intimated this, gently, to the king, and it fired his curiosity.†
Chpt 25
- But no; you see I was an unknown person, among a cruelly oppressed and suspicious people, a people always accustomed to having advantage taken of their helplessness, and never expecting just or kind treatment from any but their own families and very closest intimates.†
Chpt 33 *intimates = hints or suggests
Definition:
a subtle hint or something indicated indirectly