All 3 Uses of
implication
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- After eight days back on the case, intuition was telling Ricki Valentine that her failure to produce new evidence that would implicate Phil Switzer in the BoneMan case wasn't necessarily a bad thing.†
Chpt 11 *
- If the drive had been only three hours, he would have been able to get it done before his conscience had the time to consider the moral implications of what lay ahead.†
Chpt 23implications = results or consequences; or things suggested indirectly; or things that can be concluded
- Before he fully realized any implications of what he was doing, Ryan was screaming, full-throated, at the sky.†
Chpt 37 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(implication as in: the implication is that...) Something that follows from something else.The thing that follows could be:
- something suggested indirectly (not said directly)
- something that can be concluded (often a logical consequence)
- something that results from something else
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(2)
(implication as in: Her implication in the crime) involvement in or the suggestion that someone was involved in something -- especially a crime