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noun 1. The action of inferring or drawing a conclusion.
2. An inference.

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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Play Button "The board game Clue depends on players drawing illations based on the revealed evidence."
Play Button "We came to the illation that Tim wasn't going to join us after he postponed three times."
Play Button "The detective's astute illation helped authorities close the case."
Latin, mid-16th century
Why This Word?
Sherlock Holmes claimed to be a master of deduction, but he could also have called himself an expert of illation. "Illation" comes from the Latin root "illat-," meaning "brought in," and the root comes comes from the verb "inferre," meaning to "bring in, bring about." In medieval Latin, "inferre" meant "deduce." ...
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