[Vocabulary] impliedly or implicitly

[homehrani]

Hi
would you please explain what is the difference of the usage of these two words.
Thank you

 

[bhaisahab]

'Impliedly' is not a word.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi.
Would you please explain [STRIKE]what is[/STRIKE] the difference [STRIKE]of the[/STRIKE] in usage of [STRIKE]these[/STRIKE] the two words in my title?
Thank you.

Note my corrections above.

 

[homehrani]

'Impliedly' is not a word.

Thank you.
I understand from your reply that I shall not use this "whatever it is" anywhere.

 

[GoesStation]

You should not write impliedly. Your readers will not understand it.

 

[homehrani]

I searched Google and found the followings which shows "impliedly" is a word.

Expressly Or Explicitly &Amp; Impliedly Or Implicitly


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What's the difference between (1) "expressly" & "explicitly" and (2) "impliedly" & "implicitly"?

Thank you so much.

Kind Regards,

Antony
17th December 2005




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Well for a start there is no such word as impliedly.
17th December 2005



From Reuters on 2006-1-17:

"It is difficult to defend the attorney general's declaration that the statute impliedly criminalizes physician-assisted suicide," Justice Anthony Kennedy said for the court majority.

The online dictionary defines '"impleidly" thus:
Im·pli·ed·ly
adv.
By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.

So obviously impliedly is a word but I have never seen it before. However, a search on A9 turns up many references that appear to be legal documents or arguments. It appears to be a legal term. Google fight has over 18 million references to "implicitly" and only 500,000 references to "impliedly."

 

[Raymott]

If it's a legal term, you will learn its meaning when you study law. Otherwise, there's no point in asking ordinary people who have not even heard of it.

 

[homehrani]

I didn't know, and still I am not sure it can be used only in legal terms.

 

[Rover_KE]

That's why lawyers charge so much: they use words the rest of us don't understand.