Definition of Implication

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Implication

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

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Implication Quotations

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
James Hillman

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
Eudora Welty

In any film there's always a historical implication.
Oliver Stone

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
Archie Shepp

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
Edwin Meese

Implication Translations

implication in German is Folgerung, Implikation, Verwicklung, Implikation
implication in Norwegian is innblanding, innvikling

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