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n. - A slight suggestion or vague understanding; An indirect suggestion.

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Usage examples (34)
  • This intimation is the proceed of mere love, which, whether you embrace or no, I shall still continue all those good wishes and offices of respect that may become
  • It might be the handkerchief sent back to her, it might be some other plain intimation that he had changed his mind.
  • No intimation from the Confederate army, or from the men controlling it, in relation to a peace compromise has ever come to
  • A plain intimation what a hard thing it is to find a truly ingenious industrious man: Seest thou a man diligent in his business?
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