All 3 Uses of
tacit
in
War and Peace
- …Speranski, either because he appreciated the other's capacity or because he considered it necessary to win him to his side, showed off his dispassionate calm reasonableness before Prince Andrew and flattered him with that subtle flattery which goes hand in hand with self-assurance and consists in a tacit assumption that one's companion is the only man besides oneself capable of understanding the folly of the rest of mankind and the reasonableness and profundity of one's own ideas.†
Chpt 6
- Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their chosen rulers.†
Chpt 15 *
- Recognizing the falsity of this view of history, another set of historians say that power rests on a conditional delegation of the will of the people to their rulers, and that historical leaders have power only conditionally on carrying out the program that the will of the people has by tacit agreement prescribed to them.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(tacit) implied or understood, but not expressed directly