Both Uses of
tacit
in
Black Boy
- The roundhouse was the racial boundary of the neighborhood, and it had been tacitly agreed between the white boys and the black boys that the whites were to keep to the far side of the roundhouse and we blacks were to keep to our side.†
Chpt 1.3tacitly = in an indirect manner
- Before I had been made to go to church, I had given God's existence a sort of tacit assent, but after having seen His creatures serve Him at first hand, I had had my doubts.†
Chpt 1.4 *tacit = implied
Definition:
implied or understood, but not expressed directly