Reticence
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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.
