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/səgdʒˈɛstʃən/ Listen

noun

Suggestion n.

1.

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

2.

That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation. "Why do I yield to that suggestion?"

3.

Charge; complaint; accusation. (Obs.) "A false suggestion."

4.

(Law) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

5.

(Physiol. & Metaph.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

6.

(Hypnotism) The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.

Synonyms: Hint; allusion; intimation; insinuation. Suggestion, Hint. A hint is the briefest or most indirect mode of calling one's attention to a subject. A suggestion is a putting of something before the mind for consideration, an indirect or guarded mode of presenting argument or advice. A hint is usually something slight or covert, and may by merely negative in its character. A suggestion is ordinarily intended to furnish us with some practical assistance or direction. "He gave me a hint of my danger, and added some suggestions as to the means of avoiding it." "Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike." "Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night On your suggestion."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Suggestion" Quotes from Famous Books

... suggestion that I would make to you before I go on, and that is that all through the New Testament, but especially in John's Gospel, 'the world' does not only mean men, but sinful men, men separated from God. And the great and blessed truth taught here is that, however I may drag myself ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... who were more precisely contemporaries of Scott, the Lake Poets and Byron are the most important. The precedence ought to be given to Coleridge because of the suggestion Scott caught from a chance recitation of Christabel for the meter he made so popular in the Lay.[257] Fragments from Christabel are quoted or alluded to so often in the novels[258] and throughout Scott's work that we should conclude ...

— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball

... committing himself on the subject of Louis Quatorze. On one point Audrey was firm. For what reasons nobody can say, but some Malay creeses had caught her fancy, and no argument could dissuade her from arranging them over the Neapolitan Psyche which she had kept at Ted's suggestion. The gruesome weapons, on a background of barbaric gold, hung above that pathetic torso, like a Fate responsible for its mutilation. Audrey was pleased with the effect; she revelled in strong contrasts and ...

— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair

... do as I bid him, and will require no suggestion from you. And now I have another matter to treat of. Mr. Bertram, where is ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... footsteps to which his heart kept time. It was the coming of Fate to him, for he had made up his mind to tell her of the love that was consuming him. Two days before, with tears on his bashful face, he had confided all to his mother; and, at her suggestion, he had now provided a little present by way of introduction. Katrine smiled sweetly as she approached, for, with a woman's quick eye, she had read his glances long before. His lips at first rebelled, but he struggled out a salutation, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various

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