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Definition of Hinted
1. hint [v] - See also: hint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hinted
Literary usage of Hinted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"The most powerful subjects have not a natural right to the service of other freemen.
But in the laws enacted during the Heptarchy, we find it hinted that ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"He never hinted in any of his advertisements that speech was the thing to be
transmitted by it, and that it would yield speech. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"And yet, lest this plentitude of authority should be abused to the detriment of
the public, the constitution (as we hinted before) hath here interposed a ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... against the general doctrine laid down by the two Judges who supported the
reception cf the evidence in the former case was pretty broadly hinted. ..."
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