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Definition of Intimations
1. intimation [n] - See also: intimation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intimations
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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