Definition of Intimations

1. Noun. (plural of intimation) ¹

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Definition of Intimations

1. intimation [n] - See also: intimation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intimations

intimal
intimas
intimate apparel
intimate with
intimated
intimately
intimateness
intimatenesses
intimater
intimaters
intimates
intimatest
intimating
intimation
intimations (current term)
intime
intimidate
intimidated
intimidates
intimidating
intimidatingly
intimidation
intimidations
intimidator
intimidators
intimidatory
intimin
intimins
intimism

Literary usage of Intimations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1860)
"Among the vulgar these intimations are not ... It is in these several classes of intimations, most of them involuntary, that we find another instance of the ..."

2. The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries edited by Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson (1893)
"FUNERAL intimations OF Two CENTURIES.—On few points is mankind more conservative than on funeral customs, and, selecting one point, it is interesting to ..."

3. Poems of the English Race by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1921)
"31 (1807) ODE intimations OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [This poem was based on the writer's own experience of a ..."

4. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... as it often actually does when she dreams that she is in such a solitude. sensible of her being ¡-Лоне in her sleeping l strong intimations, not only of ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... and verdure spring, Joy to me they canna bring, Unless wi' thee, my dearie, Ot WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [1770-1850] 364 ODE ON intimations OF IMMORTALITY FROM ..."

6. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1861)
"... accepts the Office — His Ambition and Mistakes—His Installation at the Hague — intimations of tho Queen's Displeasure — Deprecatory Letters of Leicester ..."

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