Intimationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌɪntəˈmeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

intimation (plural intimations)

1. A hint; an indirect suggestion.
   • 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England:

     Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.

   • 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.

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 378:

     And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end. But intimations weren't much use.

2. The act of intimating.
3. Announcement; declaration.
   • 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:

     They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.

4. (Can we verify this sense?) The thing intimated.

派生語

関連する語

• intimacy
• intimate

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “intimation”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.