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Webster 1913 Edition
Reticence
Ret′i-cence
,Noun.
[L.
reticentia
: cf. F. réticence
.] 1.
The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one’s tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
Such fine reserve and noble
reticence
. Tennyson.
2.
(Rhet.)
A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.