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ˈreticency
[-ency.]
= reticence n.
a1617Bayne On Eph. (1643) 157 The words have a rhetorical reticency in them, and are thus laid down. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 51 Wherefore, then, use they so manifold..obscurities, insignificancies, reticencies? 1727–38Chambers Cycl., Reticency,..a figure in rhetoric, whereby we make oblique mention of a thing, in pretending to pass it over unmentioned. 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXVIII. 19 Brooke pointed out numberless inaccuracies, which Camden corrected with illiberal reticency. 1889Stevenson Master of Ballantrae 165 That unhappy and secretive fault of reticency. |