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implicit

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1. implicit - Adjective

2. implicit - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.

Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement.

Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience.

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Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. Louis Sullivan

I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other. Hillary Clinton

Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator. Paulo Freire

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls. Lewis H. Lapham

I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function. Robert Venturi

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. Alice Meynell

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