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explicitness|ɛkˈsplɪsɪtnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being explicit; distinctness of statement or (formerly) of apprehension; freedom from ambiguity or obscurity of meaning; outspokenness.
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. xii. 187 Whose judgement (of speculative doctrine) is..with lesse curiosity and explicitenesse declared in Scripture. a1716South Serm. (1737) IV. vii. 284 The knowledge of this article..was by no means received with..explicitness in the ancient Jewish Church. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xxxii. 236 An explicitness that can admit of no mistake. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. iv, Explicitness is not the language of such as I am. 1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §581 That explicitness of syntax. |