All 3 Uses of
explicit
in
The Screwtape Letters
- If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy's warnings are too well known.†
Chpt 24 *explicitly = clearly and specifically
- And while he thinks that, we do not have to contend with the explicit repentance of a definite, fully recognised, sin, but only with his vague, though uneasy, feeling that he hasn't been doing very well lately.†
Chpt 12
- Even if we contrive to keep them ignorant of explicit religion, the incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry—the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon—are always blowing our whole structure away.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(explicit as in: explicit instructions) clear and with enough detail so there is no confusionShared information is often divided into two categories: explicit and implicit
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(explicit as in: explicit photos and pornography) expressing or displaying sexual activity or violence in a detailed manner