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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_167543" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_167543" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57206" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57206" /> == | ||
<p> <b> | <p> <b> RETICENCE. </b> —See Reserve. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
Latest revision as of 11:20, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) 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.
(2): ( n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [2]
RETICENCE. —See Reserve.
