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
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Reticence Translations
reticence in German is Verschwiegenheit
reticence in Spanish is mutismo
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