Both Uses of
tacit
in
A Separate Peace
- In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day I entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left.
p. 9.9tacit = understood, but not said or thought directly
- So I glanced at my wrist watch, brought my hand dramatically to my mouth as though remembering something urgent and important, repeated the pantomime in case anybody had missed it, and with this tacit explanation started briskly back toward the center of the school.
p. 153.8 *tacit = implied, but not expressed directly
Definition:
implied or understood, but not expressed directly