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reticence
(mass) | reticence
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reticence
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reticence
(encz) | reticence,rezervovanost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Reticence
(gcide) | 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.
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Such fine reserve and noble reticence. --Tennyson.
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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.
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reticence
(wn) | reticence
n 1: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering
anything more than necessary [syn: reserve, reticence,
taciturnity] |
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Reticence
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
Such fine reserve and noble reticence. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
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.
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