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/ˌɪmpləkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Implication n.

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. "Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts."

An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words. "Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Implication" Quotes from Famous Books

... subject of the United States, and have taken, expressly or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is retained on the roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the throne, and whose existence is a denial of the first ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various

... her, and, by implication only, occasionally confided in her on other subjects than the children. Today, however, Edith answered that she was very well indeed, but was going to see about things before they went away. 'I don't know how we shall manage without you for the holidays, ...

— Tenterhooks • Ada Leverson

... word is the subtle implication, the emotional association it carries—often quite apart from its dictionary definition. Thus the words house and home in large measure overlap in meaning, but emotionally they are not equivalents at all. You can say house ...

— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... hack-work can be redeemed by an artistic spirit, as she has so adequately explained to you. All young women have not independent fortunes, and such as are without means are obliged to take whatever they can find to do in the line of their professions. I agree with your implication that society items do not constitute literature, but they are stepping stones to higher things. Which is the more creditable, pray, to collect and chronicle the social customs of the age in which you live, foolish ...

— A Romantic Young Lady • Robert Grant

... during the succeeding month. It was the short, or closing session, of a regular Congressional term. The implication of Judge Lyman in the affair of Green and young Hammond had brought him into such bad odor in Cedarville and the whole district from which he had been chosen, that his party deemed it wise to set him aside, and take up a candidate less ...

— Ten Nights in a Bar Room • T. S. Arthur

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