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Definition of Reticency
1. n. Reticence.
Definition of Reticency
1. Noun. reticence ¹
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Definition of Reticency
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reticency
Literary usage of Reticency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"This reticency reduces the sermon in popular esteem to a second or third stage
in literature. It degrades the preacher in popular esteem far below the place ..."
2. The Pastor: Pastoral Theology by Gregory Thurston Bedell (1879)
"Absolute reticency should be the Pastor's rule in matters large and small alike.
... But let one's reputation be established for entire reticency of affairs ..."
3. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 by United States President (1897)
"I have not felt myself at liberty to express even views of my own or to account
for my reticency. This has placed me in an awkward position, which I could ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1815)
"... corrected with illiberal reticency. An appendix relative to Literary
Quarrels, (here the word is in its place,) from personal motives, terminates this ..."
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