ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Reticences

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Reticences is a noun meaning plural of reticence.

Meaning

plural of reticence.

More Meanings

  1. Things that have been left out of a piece of writing, etc.
  2. third-person singular simple present indicative of reticence

Example Sentences

A Spanish novel writer who cannot be accused of undue sex reticenses is Vicente Blasco Ibanez, [...]
[T]he endeavour to cloak the gubernatorial derelictions of duty, [...] is defeated as much by the revelations of the publication under review, as by its reticenses.
It required the blandishments and even the threats of the magistrate, to induce him to repeat his story; and then it came so involved and disfigured by innumerable reticenses and circumlocutions; he made such a sad jumble of it that no doubt remained in the magistrate's mind, and but little in the boy's own partisans', that the whole tale was an illgot-up fabrication, [...]

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Related dictionary entries include taciturnity, reserve, omission, ellipsis, nonreticence, elision.

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