Both Uses of
implicit
in
War and Peace
- Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated.†
Chpt 1 *
- "There has never been an instance of a bluestocking being carried away by affairs of the heart"—a statement which, though gathered from an unknown source, he believed implicitly.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(implicit as in: not explicitly but implicitly) not stated directly, but understood (or capable of being understood) from something elseeditor's notes: Shared information is often divided into two categories: That which is said explicitly (directly in words that leave no room for confusion or doubt) and that which is said implicitly.