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Date: 1600-1700
Language: French
Origin: tacite, from Latin tacitus, from tacere 'to be silent'

tacit

 adjective
     
ta‧cit
tacit agreement, approval, support etc is given without anything actually being said:
a tacit agreement between the three big companies
—tacitly adverb
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