Meanings of only intimation in English

This, says the sergeant-major, was the only intimation of the enemy's strength.

The only intimation we had that our payments had reached you was the exceedingly prompt debit of the South African bank.

A muttered imprecation was the only intimation that the figure which had been so unceremoniously bundled into the closet was alive.

This was the first, the last, the only intimation I had ever heard from Grace, of her being conscious of any defect in Rupert's character.

It is often suggested that Kandinsky's early abstractions contain not only intimations of disaster, but premonitions of the coming first world war.

"Old friends will please accept this, the only intimation."