Category:Reticence

Ret"i*cence, n. Etym: [l. reticentia: cf. F. réticence.]

1. 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.

2. (rhet.)

Defn: a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he Makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.