Meaning of reticences | Babel Free

Definitions

Things that have been left out of a piece of writing, etc.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“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, [...]”

“[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.”

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

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