reticences

See also: réticences

English

Noun

reticences

1. plural of reticence

Noun

reticences pl (plural only)

1. Things that have been left out of a piece of writing, etc.
   • 1845 November, L. Mariotti, “Morello; or, The Organ Boy’s Progress”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXV, number CCXCIX, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, chapter IX (Morello at Bow-Street), page 312:

     It required the blandishments and even the threats of the magistrate, to induce him to repeat his story; and then it came so involved and disfigured by innumerable reticenses and circumlocutions; he made such a sad jumble of it that no doubt remained in the magistrate's mind, and but little in the boy's own partisans', that the whole tale was an illgot-up fabrication, [...]

   • 1853, “Art. III.—Selections from the Records of the Bengal Government—No. IX. Report on the Teak Forests of the Tenasserim Provinces. By H. Falconer, […] Calcutta, 1852. [book review]”, in The Calcutta Review, volume XXI, number XLI, Calcutta: […] Sanders, Cones & Co., […], →OCLC, page 155:

     [T]he endeavour to cloak the gubernatorial derelictions of duty, [...] is defeated as much by the revelations of the publication under review, as by its reticenses.

   • 1923 May, “The Pornographic Spanish Novel”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 325, column 2:

     A Spanish novel writer who cannot be accused of undue sex reticenses is Vicente Blasco Ibanez, [...]

Alternative forms

• reticenses (archaic)

Verb

reticences

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reticence

Alternative forms

• reticenses (archaic)