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implicitly

Adverb

Meaning

In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.

By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of God is implicitly to deny his existence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. Camille Paglia

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? John Calvin

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems. Robert Orben

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. Horatio Nelson

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. Alice James

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