Definition of Reticence

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Reticence

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.

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 Quotations

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
William E. Gladstone

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.
Lisa Guerrero

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
Pamela Stephenson

Reticence Translations

reticence in German is Verschwiegenheit
reticence in Spanish is mutismo

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