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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 Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)

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 Lever, Charles James

Away they went with reckless precipitance, the cattle obeying the master hand of the celebrated raider with an implicitness which seemed to indicate a strange sympathy between man and beast.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell

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 Holyoake, George Jacob

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 Hart, John S. (John Seely)