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Reticence

RET'ICENCE, RET'ICENCY, n. [L. reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.] Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, while he m...

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RET'ICENCE,

RET'ICENCY, n. [L. reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.]

Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, while he makes a show as if he would say nothing on the subject.

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