Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By implication; virtually.
- Trustfully; without question, doubt, or hesitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.
- adverb By implication; impliedly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
implicit orimplied manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without ever expressing so clearly
- adverb without doubting or questioning
Etymologies
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Examples
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McLaughlin, the court ruled the phrase "implicitly advocates" should no longer apply to the definition of political advertising, and that only "expressly advocates" should apply.
All Stories 2011
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The Hebrew term implicitly translated by the Greek word Logos is Davar.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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The Hebrew term implicitly translated by the Greek word Logos is Davar.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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The Hebrew term implicitly translated by the Greek word Logos is Davar.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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During their time together, she had told him of the Jacobite Rising's ultimate failure, and he trusts her word implicitly.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Sarah Johnson 2011
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During their time together, she had told him of the Jacobite Rising's ultimate failure, and he trusts her word implicitly.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Sarah Johnson 2011
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In starting this blog (and joining up with other literary blogs in implicitly attempting to create a "broad infrastructure" of serious literary discussion), I was making a judgment that the blog post could come to approximate (in a perhaps more condensed form) if not replace the critical essay -- the available forums for which have long been dwindling in number -- as the vehicle for "literary criticism."
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Nevertheless, the manly competition among heavies, even if kept within implicitly defined limits, clearly exacted a cost as well.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Obama's representatives also defend their use of the word "confused" to describe McCain's foreign policy positions against a reporter's charge that the word implicitly connotes an attack on McCain's age, noting that McCain was confused on foreign policy issues when he was younger and that older senators than McCain do not show such confusion.
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Somehow the idea that some random person would have something insightful to say on an item that I might be interested in implicitly presumes a level of commonality in interests and tastes.
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