Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to implicate or to imply; pertaining to implication.
- noun A thing of hidden meaning; a statement or writing implying something different from its literal meaning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to implicate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
implicate or toimply ; pertaining to implication.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to suggest or imply
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Examples
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Earlier this week, I read a quite interesting study by Andrew H. Miller, The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (2008), itself an experiment in what Miller calls "implicative criticism"--a criticism that "invites ... perfecting," instead of declaring itself fully accomplished (30).
Academic 2009
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Fyfe notes that Christian scientific publications "limited the range of interpretations open to the reader, by making it more difficult to read an infidel message against the Christian tone," and Dammast's novel engages in similarly self-protective strategies.6 To go back to Miller's own words, the novel endorses the "conclusive" 30, not the "implicative."
Books 2009
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An implicative negation phenomenon (ma-yin dgag, affirming negation) is an exclusion of something else (gzhan-sel) in which, after the sounds of the words that exclude the object to be negated have negated that object, they leave behind in their wake (bkag-shul), explicitly or implicitly, something else.
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Fyfe notes that Christian scientific publications "limited the range of interpretations open to the reader, by making it more difficult to read an infidel message against the Christian tone," and Dammast's novel engages in similarly self-protective strategies.6 To go back to Miller's own words, the novel endorses the "conclusive" 30, not the "implicative."
Academic 2009
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This is not an implicative negation phenomenon, namely a refutation of the type: “it is not this” or “it is not that.”
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“Something left behind in the wake of an implicative negation phenomenon” is like an oil-slick left behind by a motorboat.
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Moreover, let us limit our discussion to the Gelug Prasangika assertion of “not-yet-happenings” as nonstatic implicative negation phenomena.
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Like the “not-yet-happening of the result,” the “temporarily not-giving-rise to its result” is a nonstatic implicative negation phenomena and a noncongruent affecting variable, imputably knowable on the basis of a karmic tendency.
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And Edwards has not shown himself able to combat this sort of implicative slur.
Top Official At Nader's Old Group Sees Obama As Most Reliable Good-Government Ally 2009
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Earlier this week, I read a quite interesting study by Andrew H. Miller, The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (2008), itself an experiment in what Miller calls "implicative criticism"--a criticism that "invites ... perfecting," instead of declaring itself fully accomplished (30).
Books 2009
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