implicit
adjective
implied, rather than expressly stated.
implicitness
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a word derived from
implicit.
Example Sentences
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This seems the place to remark that the unsuspected sources of error and unfriendliness have their rise in the criminal implicitness with which we listen to reports, and infer from rumours as from facts.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake
His affection was proved to have been sincere, and his conduct cleared of all blame, unless any could attach to the implicitness of his confidence in his friend.
From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
In proportion to the implicitness with which we rely upon divine aid, should be the diligence with which we use all the human means within our reach.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
I can scarcely help smiling at the implicitness of this honest faith; but I take good care not to smile; on the contrary, I give every possible encouragement to the belief.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
His directors, most of them his contemporaries and whose insurance knowledge was limited to what they had learned on the Guardian directorate, trusted and believed in him with absolute implicitness.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
