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intimation
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The Portrait of a Lady
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American girls were used to a great deal of deference, and it had been intimated that this one had a high spirit.†
Chpt 2

intimated = hinted or suggested
To this observation our heroine made no return; she was absorbed in the alarm given her by Henrietta's intimation that Caspar Goodwood would present himself at Gardencourt.†
Chpt 11 *

intimation = a hint or suggestion of something
This declaration was unflattering, but Henrietta was much too unselfish to heed the charge it conveyed; she cared only for what it intimated with regard to her friend.†
Chpt 17

intimated = hinted or suggested
Mrs. Touchett presently received her and intimated in a few words that condolences might be taken for granted.†
Chpt 20
While Isabel's host exerted himself to entertain her in this somewhat confidential fashion she looked occasionally at Madame Merle, who met her eyes with an inattentive smile in which, on this occasion, there was no infelicitous intimation that our heroine appeared to advantage.†
Chpt 24

intimation = a hint or suggestion of something
As I intimated just now, you'll be tired some day.†
Chpt 29

intimated = 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 37

intimates = 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 39

intimating = 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 42

intimated = 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 45

intimation = 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 47

intimates = 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 51

intimation = 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 53

intimations = 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 54

intimation = a hint or suggestion of something

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(1) (intimation)
a subtle hint or something indicated indirectly
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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