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reticenses

reticenses is the archaic spelling of reticences.

reticenses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reticense.

Meaning of reticences

Noun

reticences pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Things that have been left out of a piece of writing, etc.
    • 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...1845 November, L. Mariotti, “Morello; or, The Organ Boy’s Progress”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXV, number CCXCIX, London: Henry Colburn...

Questions about reticenses

What is reticenses the archaic spelling of?
Reticenses is the archaic spelling of reticences.

Words near reticenses in the dictionary

  1. reticences
  2. reticencies
  3. reticency
  4. reticense
  5. reticensed
  6. reticenses
  7. reticent
  8. reticently
  9. reticket
  10. reticketed
  11. reticketing

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