Reticences

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of reticence form-of, plural
  2. 2
    Things that have been left out of a piece of writing, etc. plural, plural-only

    "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, [...]"

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of reticence form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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