different between intimation vs indicating

English

From Middle French intimation, from Latin intimatio

intimation (plural intimations)

The act of intimating.
The thing intimated.
Announcement; declaration.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
  They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.
- 1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:
  At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 378:
  And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end. But intimations weren't much use.

“intimation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

indicating

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