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Definition of Imply

1. Verb. Express or state indirectly.

2. Verb. Suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic.

3. Verb. Have as a logical consequence. "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"

4. Verb. Suggest that someone is guilty.

5. Verb. Have as a necessary feature. "This decision involves many changes"

Definition of Imply

1. v. t. To infold or involve; to wrap up.

Definition of Imply

1. Verb. (archaic) to enfold, entangle. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence ¹

3. Verb. (transitive of a person) to suggest by logical inference ¹

4. Verb. (transitive of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imply

1. to indicate or suggest indirectly [v -PLIED, -PLYING, -PLIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imply

implosiveness implosives imploy imployed imploying imployment imploys implumed implunge implunged

implunges implunging impluvia impluvium impluviums imply (current term) implying impocket impockets impoison

impoisoned impoisoner impoisoners impoisoning impoisonment impoisonments impoisons impolarily impolarly impolder

Literary usage of Imply

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Moral truth, therefore^ does not imply true knowledge. But, though a deviation from moral truth would be only materially a lie, and hence not blameworthy, ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Orderic seems to imply that the main offence of this survey lay in ... This might imply such stringent application of the Domesday records as would justify ..."

3. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"If they imply permanent relations, his theory properly excludes them. then without any recognition of the fact that the whole reduction of primary qualities ..."

4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Private boards imply trade agreements and organized unions. Public boards are usually boards of conciliation, but none the less helpful, 344 — Sec. 6. ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... timid steps—and although he may have put a vehemence into his expression that would seem to imply that he was drifting in deep waters—one cannot forbear ..."

6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"Lag paid for, and will imply a promise to pay what they are reasonably worth." There IB no error disclosed In the record, and the judgment In plaintiffs ..."

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