4 uses
- That was all that had been explicitly in her mind; but she had been urged also by a vague discomfort.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (3% in)
- On the contrary, there was a strong reason to be added, which he had not himself taken explicitly into account—namely, that he was not unmixedly adorable.Book 4 — Three Love Problems (91% in)
- She was ready to say that it was as hard on her as on him, and that she was helpless; but those strange particulars of their relation which neither of them could explicitly mention kept her always in dread of saying too much.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (96% in)
- For certain words of mysterious appropriateness that Mrs. Plymdale let fall about her resolution never to turn her back on her friends, convinced Mrs. Bulstrode that what had happened must be some kind of misfortune, and instead of being able to say with her native directness, "What is it that you have in your mind?" she found herself anxious to get away before she had heard anything more explicit.Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (17% in)
There are no more uses of "explicit" in Middlemarch.
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