Explicitly
[ɪk'splɪsɪtli]
Definition
(adv.) in an explicit manner; 'in his foreword Professor Clark puts it explicitly'.
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Definition
(adv.) In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.
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Examples
- That was all that had been explicitly in her mind; but she had been urged also by a vague discomfort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the account previously given nothing was explicitly said about the place of literature and the fine arts in the course of study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some historians declare explicitly that there was a treaty to that effect. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have explicitly added, however, the recognition of the part played in the joint activity by the use of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You are prepared to hear explicitly what he meant? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It remains to disentangle them from the context in which they have been referred to, and discuss explicitly their nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Send back your answer as fast as you can, and be careful to write explicitly. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Rousseau consciously set aside the problem of nationality or citizenship; he was cosmopolitan, and explicitly renounced the idea of planning the education of a Frenchman or a Swiss. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You must speak explicitly, or you may go where you will, and do what you will. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We may distinguish, of course, the more explicitly conscious phase of the continuous activity as mental or psychical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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