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reticence |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reticence \Ret"i*cence\, n. [L. reticentia: cf F. r['e]ticence.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reticence n : the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: {reserve}, {taciturnity}]
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