Meaning of reticenses | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Archaic spelling of reticences; plural of reticense.
   alt-of, archaic
2. Archaic spelling of reticences.
   alt-of, archaic, 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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