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1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw. 2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good

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1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw. 2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition. Sir H. Wotton. I hope through the insinuation of Lord Scarborough to keep them here till further orders. Lady Cowper. 3. The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner. He bad a natural insinuation and address which made him acceptable in the best company. Clarendon. 4. That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations. I scorn your coarse insinuation. Cowper. Syn. -- Hint; intimation; suggestion. See Innuendo.

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  • ALLUSION
    1. A figurative or symbolical reference. 2. A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.
  • INTRUSIONIST
    One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
  • INTRUSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to intrusion.
  • INSINUATION
    1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw. 2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good
  • INTERVENTION
    The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. (more info) 1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.
  • INTERPOSITION
    insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed.
  • INTERCESSIONAL
    Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession or entreaty.
  • AGENCY
    1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
  • INTERCESSIONATE
    To entreat.
  • MEDIATION
    1. The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. The soul by the mediation of these passions. South. 2. Hence, specifically, agency between
  • INTRUSION
    The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another. (more info) 1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing into a place without right or welcome; encroachment. Why this intrusion
  • REFERENCE
    The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. 6. Appeal. "Make your full reference." Shak. Reference Bible, a Bible in which brief
  • INTERFERENCE
    The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness,
  • INTERCESSION
    The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or against, another or others. But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings
  • INTERAGENCY
    Intermediate agency.
  • SUBAGENCY
    A subordinate agency.
  • NONINTERVENTION
    The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.
  • INTERMEDIATION
    The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.
  • COAGENCY
    Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.
  • PREFERENCE
    1. The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference. Leave the critics

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