Silentious

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Habitually taciturn; prone to silence.

    "Yet Will had very good qualities too: gentle, tractable, and, above all, grateful; silentious, even to a fault: he spoke, at any time, very little, but made it up emphatically with action;"

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"Yet Will had very good qualities too: gentle, tractable, and, above all, grateful; silentious, even to a fault: he spoke, at any time, very little, but made it up emphatically with action;"

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