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countable and uncountable, plural hintings
The act of giving a hint or suggestion. quotations examples
Risa herself was questioned, as she expected, but the ladies took their cue from Marie and appeared content with her somewhat short answers, even when she only turned her gaze downward and blushed at the hintings at her betrothal.
2009, Sarah Zettel, In Camelot's Shadow
(typography) The process of adding hints to a computer-based font in order to align the glyphs to a rasterized grid at specific sizes in a visually appealing manner. examples
present participle and gerund of hint examples