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Definition of Tacitness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tacitness
Literary usage of Tacitness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Assault on Poverty: Basic Human Needs, Science and Technology by United Nations Staff, Idrc, UNCTAD (1997)
"First mentioned by Polanyi (1965) and later popularized by Nelson and Winter (1982),
the concept of the tacitness (or "firm specificity") of technology has ..."
2. Studies in Literature by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1918)
"... Marius (we are told) strove to answer this impressive outward silence of the
ritual by hushing his own boyish heart to that inward tacitness which ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... in the tacitness of so many persons concerned, hath been instrumental; and
therefore, why may we not, as we fearfully behold comets, with delight look ..."
4. Literary Essays by George Edward Woodberry (1920)
"... to let another tell those truths of which human nature, in its tacitness, is
half-ashamed, expose those half-lies which it is reluctant to acknowledge ..."
5. Literary Essays by George Edward Woodberry (1920)
"... to let another tell those truths of which human nature, in its tacitness, is
half-ashamed, expose those half-lies which it is reluctant to acknowledge ..."
6. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... in the tacitness of so many persons concerned, hath been instrumental; and
therefore, why may we not, as we fearfully behold comets, with delight look ..."
7. Studies of a Litterateur by George Edward Woodberry (1921)
"... worth knowing in the historic expressions of man's aspiration, and, above all,
that "inward tacitness of mind" the reader must bring to its perusal. ..."
8. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"47. tacitness (tas'it-nes), ». The state of being tacit. [Ran-.] taciturn (tas'i-tern),
a. [= P. taciturne = Sp. Pg. It. taciturno, ..."
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