Meanings of tacit assumption in English

There existed not the slightest cordiality between the men, but a tacit assumption of civil relations.

Of course, he never argued such a point; it was a tacit assumption, secure from argument.

The tacit assumption seemed to be that if the companies help farmers improve their productivity, their lives will improve in tandem.

The formation of such a confederacy certainly involved something very like a tacit assumption of sovereignty on the part of the four colonies.

There was a tacit assumption that he be the conversational sun of the hour, and in fostering this understanding the host took grateful refuge.

They paid her or her mother a kind of base court, on the tacit assumption that she-Vivie-had placed Colonel von Giesselin under special obligations.