Tacitly
['tæsɪtli]
Definition
(adv.) in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement; 'they are tacitly expected to work 10 hours a day'.
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Examples
- And tacitly, the men agreed to this. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was as if they had tacitly agreed to take their different provinces. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- War was at last tacitly acknowledged between us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As she passed to the window, after tacitly but gracefully recognizing me, I could call her nothing in my own mind save 'stainless virgin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mrs. Welland agreed, as if allowing for an inherited oddity; and after that the question of Newland's unemployment was tacitly dropped. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In all cases we transfer our experience to instances, of which we have no experience, either expressly or tacitly, either directly or indirectly. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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