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Implication

noun

Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied). Synonyms: deduction, entailment.

A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred. Synonyms: import, significance. "The expectation was spread both by word and by implication"

An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.

A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form 'if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false. Synonyms: conditional relation, logical implication.

A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement).

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"Implication" Quotes from Famous Books

... all I know," he said. "Shall I tell it also to the coroner? Or shall we allow Hayden's suicide to pass as the result of his implication in this attempt at bribery? I ask your ...

— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers

... nose off, ma'am?' repeated Mr. Bounderby. 'Your nose!' meaning, as Mrs. Sparsit conceived, that it was too developed a nose for the purpose. After which offensive implication, he cut himself a crust of bread, and threw the knife down with ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... the others laughed at the implication. Garry, although not so old in years, had several times proved himself to be a shrewd judge of character, and he had already made up his mind that the old gum hunter was a staunch and sturdy and patriotic citizen of the ...

— The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers • Claude A. Labelle

... with an easy implication that no one else's idea was needed, "that your Quarterly Conference, when it meets on Monday, must be adjourned to Tuesday. We will have the people all out tomorrow morning to love-feast, and announcement can be made there, and at the morning service ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... is addressed. He ingratiates himself with them by telling his history, and by his talk on art, and a most interesting and deeply significant talk it is, the gist of it being well expressed in a passage of Mrs. Browning's 'Aurora Leigh', "paint a body well, you paint a soul by implication, like the grand first Master. . . . Without the spiritual, observe, the natural's impossible;— no form, no motion! Without sensuous, spiritual is inappreciable;— no beauty or power! And in this twofold sphere the two-fold man (and still the ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

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