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intimation
English
Etymology
From Middle French intimation, from Latin intimatio
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt??me???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- 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.
- 1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:
Translations
Related terms
- intimacy
- intimate
References
- “intimation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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innuendo
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) inuendo
Etymology
From the Latin innuend? (“by nodding”), ablative singular form of innuendum (“a nodding”), gerund of innu? (“I give a nod”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nju??nd??/
- Rhymes: -?nd??
Noun
innuendo (plural innuendoes or innuendos or innuendis)
- A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation.
- She made a devious innuendo about her husband, who was embarrassed.
- (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
- (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
Derived terms
- innuendous
Translations
Verb
innuendo (third-person singular simple present innuendos, present participle innuendoing, simple past and past participle innuendoed)
- (transitive, law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
- 1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury (page 119)
- A statement that a person's presence at a certain club may be "irksome," may be innuendoed that the person is of such bad character as not to be a fit associate with honourable men.
- 1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury (page 119)
Further reading
- Innuendo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Innuendo in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- dunnione
Latin
Verb
innuend?
- dative gerund of innu?
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