Definition of Reticencies

1. reticency [n] - See also: reticency

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reticencies

rethreading
rethreads
rethrew
rethrow
rethrowing
rethrown
rethrows
retia
retial
retiari
retiarii
retiarius
retiary
reticence
reticences
reticencies (current term)
reticency
reticent
reticently
retick
reticket
reticketed
reticketing
retickets
reticle
reticle eyepiece
reticles
reticul-
reticula
reticular

Literary usage of Reticencies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1893)
"With regard to the researches into etiological causes there were such complete lacuna- in certain cases and in others such obscurities, reticencies and ..."

2. Literary Essays by George Edward Woodberry (1920)
"... so his thought, despite its reticencies — and they are many and serious — will be held bold, free, advancing and again above all wise. ..."

3. The Makers of English Poetry by William James Dawson (1906)
"Critics also arose who made it the first article of a sound poetic faith that for the poet Nature had no reticencies, and that in art moral considerations ..."

4. Literary Essays by George Edward Woodberry (1920)
"... so his thought, despite its reticencies — and they are many and serious — will be held bold, free, advancing and again above all wise. ..."

5. The Contemporary Drama of France by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1920)
"Knowing no polite reticencies, he diagnoses social maladies, and writes prescriptions for their cure. Deficient in taste, he is eminently sincere. ..."

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