Imply vs Bespeak - What's the difference?
imply | bespeak | Synonyms |
(of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
(of a person) to suggest by logical inference
(of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
(archaic) to enfold, entangle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
(lb) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
*2006 , Janet Jaymes, Dirty Laundry: A Memoir :
*:But to bespeak of a love, heavily weighed upon a heart, toward someone opposing those sentiments encourages foolish and embarrassing repercussions he will never know about.
(lb) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour
(lb) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
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To forbode; foretell.
To speak to; address.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:He thus the queen bespoke .
(lb) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
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*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:[They] bespoke dangersin order to scare the allies.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
(lb) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
* 1839 , Charles Dickens,
Imply is a synonym of bespeak.
As verbs the difference between imply and bespeak
is that imply is (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence while bespeak is (lb) to speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.As a noun bespeak is
a request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.imply
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(en-verb)- The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal
- When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown
- What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
- And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes .
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* (to have as a necessary consequence) entail * (to suggest tacitly) allude, hint, insinuate, suggestSee also
* connotation * entailExternal links
* *bespeak
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* *Noun
(en noun)- "By the bye, I've been thinking of bringing out that piece of yours on her bespeak night."
- "When?", asked Nicholas.
- "The night of her bespeak'. Her benefit night. When her friends and patrons ' bespeak the play."
- "Oh! I understand", replied Nicholas.