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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