As we shall see, when satisfaction is invoked in Othello, and byOthello himself, what is being sought is proof and revenge, knowledgeand retaliation, certainty and redress. And what is more thanintimated, as I want to show, is just how inextricable these thingscan be.
Now, it is true that the meaning "shared expressly" may be inferred from the citation, but only from the entire phrase "more than intimated," meaning "went beyond just hinting at or implying." The entire phrase "more than intimated" may intimate (i.e., hint at or imply) the meaning "shared expressly," but "intimated" itself doesn't mean "shared expressly" but means the opposite of "shared expressly."
As we have already intimated, Gnosticism had such a power 1 For the disciples of Valentinus, especially Marcus, after whom was named a separate sect, the Marcosians, with their Pythagorean theories of numbers and their strong tincture of the mystical, magic, and sacramental, see Valentinus And Valentinians.
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