RETICENCES
Noun
reticences
plural of reticence
Noun
reticences pl (plural only)
Things that have been left out of a piece of writing, etc.
Verb
reticences
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reticence
Source: Wiktionary
RETICENCE
Ret"i*cence, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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