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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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reticence

RET'ICENCE

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Definition 2024


réticence

réticence

See also: reticence

French

Noun

réticence f (plural réticences)

  1. reticence, misgivings