EXPLICITNESS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Explicitness

... Wortley. Mr. Wortley's violence was not without excuse. It was his mishap to be exposed to suspicions which could only be obviated by breaking his faith. But, indeed, he knew not whether any degree of explicitness would confute the charges that were made against him; whether, by trampling on his sacred promise, he should not multiply his perils instead of lessening their number. A difficult part had been assigned to him; by much too difficult for one young, improvident, and inexperienced ...

— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown

... The remorseless explicitness, the punctuation, everything, make these specimens of public fault-finding with what probably was the equipment of Mr. Spencer's latest boarding-house, sound like passages from "The Man ...

— Memories and Studies • William James