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Word of the Day (Monday November 10, 2008)
intimation \in-tuh-MAY-shuhn\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/0c58q
an indirect or slight suggestion; hint
She had always had an intimation of her destiny: all her senses
would go on the alert, as if bracing her for a blow-a terrible,
crushing, powerful blow-of luck, whether good or bad.
-- Nina Berberova, Cape of Storms (translated by Marian Schwartz)
As it drew nearer he recognized it as a police car and some
intimation of drama touched him, the prelude to some story, and
he seated himself to watch.
-- William Gay, The Long Home
Jake Hersh, like Mordecai Richler himself a Canadian, is a
television and film director living in London and struggling
against that awful time in life when possibilities suddenly
close and a dire intimation of finality sets in.
-- Jonathan Yardley, review of St. Urbain's Horseman, by Mordecai
Richler, New York Times, June 26, 1967
A frightened, inarticulate maid weeping in the hall was their first
intimation that something was wrong.
-- Annabel Davis-Goff, The Dower House
by 1442, from Late Latin intimationem "action of intimating," from
intimare "to impress (upon), make known"
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