All 3 Uses
tacit
in
The Turn of the Screw
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- I don't mean that they had their tongues in their cheeks or did anything vulgar, for that was not one of their dangers: I do mean, on the other hand, that the element of the unnamed and untouched became, between us, greater than any other, and that so much avoidance could not have been so successfully effected without a great deal of tacit arrangement.†
Chpt Alltacit = implied
- She passed that night, by the most tacit, and I should add, were not the word so grotesque a false note, the happiest of arrangements, with Mrs. Grose.†
Chpt All *
- It sufficiently stuck out that, by tacit little tricks in which even more than myself he carried out the care for my dignity, I had had to appeal to him to let me off straining to meet him on the ground of his true capacity.†
Chpt All
Definitions:
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(1)
(tacit) implied or understood, but not expressed directly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)