Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...iconoclast. On the contrary, I am an implicit believer in everything old and sanctioned by custom. I do not say that these customs of ours should be given up because they are silly, but that they should be clung to tenaciously because they...
...this latter class which particularly delights the credulous inhabitants of Boston, who, though they are not as a general rule inclined to place implicit belief in newspaper statements, still are perfectly willing to accept as truth any statement concerning college or collegians, and the more absurd and outrageous it is the better are they pleased...
...insure us against the intrusion of gamblers and blacklegs, we will engage to be 'represented,'" reflects beautifully upon the colleges who took part in the races last summer, for it implies that an intercollegiate regatta is not a contest in some honest work; and the last clause shows his implicit belief that Saratoga society is made up of gamblers and blacklegs, who prey upon the unsuspecting and guileless youth that are drawn to that "sink of iniquity" by the regatta. Therefore, he thinks that his "free-born Vermonters" - who would never go astray of their own free-will and accord...
Again, it is a great hindrance to a proper choice of electives in the earlier years of a college course, to know, by bitter experience, that implicit reliance cannot be placed upon the electives to be offered in future years. The benefit is small which is secured from a smattering of a score of different studies having no distinct connection and tending towards no direct result. In the case in hand, had not the College been so poor, it would have been possible, perhaps, to have appointed a new instructor, after the necessary withdrawal of the one first selected...
...James' idea he had belief implicit...