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Reticenses
noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 Archaic spelling of reticences; plural of reticense. alt-of, archaic
- 2 Archaic spelling of reticences. alt-of, archaic, 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 third-person singular simple present indicative of reticense; archaic spelling of reticences. form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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