What does reticenses mean?
Reticenses means Archaic spelling of reticences; plural of reticense..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Archaic spelling of reticences; plural of reticense..
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, [...]
[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.
A Spanish novel writer who cannot be accused of undue sex reticenses is Vicente Blasco Ibanez, [...]
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Reticenses means Archaic spelling of reticences; plural of reticense..
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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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