Crossword clues for reticence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reticence \Ret"i*cence\, n. [L. reticentia: cf. F. r['e]ticence.]
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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.
Such fine reserve and noble reticence.
--Tennyson. (Rhet.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 tight-lippedness, discretion, avoidance of saying too much 2 a silent and reserved nature
WordNet
n. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reserve, taciturnity]
Usage examples of "reticence".
His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.
Knowing her power of reticence, however, and of withdrawing from the outer courts into the penetralia of her sanctuary, guessing also at something of the aspect in which she regarded me, I dared not now make any such attempt.
The Plummer mantle of reticence had fallen too heavily on her narrow little shoulders.
Thon Taddeo had been answering questions about his work with less reticence than usual, no longer worried, apparently, about such controversial subjects as the refrangible property of light, or the ambitious of Thon Esser Shon.
Thon Taddeo had been answering questions about his work with less reticence than usual, no longer worried, apparently, about such controversial subjects as the refrangible property of light, or the ambitious of Thon Esser Shon.
Fortunately for both Alien and Trish that disposed of the matter, for Torry, aware that Trish had disliked speaking of the accident and putting her reticence down to her over vivid memories of it, steered the conversation into other channels.
Three years later, Mrs Axford was elected Chairman of the first Local Spiritual Assembly in Auckland and for many years conducted classes in public speaking to help the friends overcome their shyness and reticence so that they might teach the Faith effectively.
THE RETICENCE OF LADY ANNE Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room with the air of a man who is not certain whether he is entering a dovecote or a bomb factory, and is prepared for either eventuality.
Stanton guessed either his earlier reticence sprang from a sincere attachment to Nims or his sudden forthcoming attitude bespoke a pointed dislike of LeFleur.
Their verbal reticence has nothing of a traditional scruple or reverence before the option of being or nonbeing, which they are deciding on behalf of an unknown third.
And, too, with Bates along, there was the possibility he might lose more of his reticence and reveal some of the things he was obviously choosing to conceal.
The battle between handicappers and trainers is none the less fierce for being conducted in gentlemanly and largely uncomplaining reticence, and perhaps tonight you will capture a whiff of that unrelenting struggle.
Given his conviction that the inmates were innocent, and that one could be put to death, he found their reticence frustrating.
It seemed to her that, for the time, she had parted with all flimsy dignity and conventional reticence and coyness, as if she had flung away her conscience to be picked up by vulgar, happy, unimperilled women.
The scintillating and playful essayist whom you pictured to yourself as the most genial and entertaining of companions, turns out to be a shy and untalkable individual, who chills you with his reticence when you chance to meet him.