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[edit]Noun
[edit]reticense (countable and uncountable, plural reticenses)
- Archaic spelling of reticence.
- 1824, Francis Plowden, “Of Tithes and Other Church Property”, in Human Subordination: Being an Elementary Disquisition Concerning the Civil and Spiritual Power and Authority, […], Paris, London: […] W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, […], →OCLC, page 125:
- It must not be numbered among the obliviscences and reticenses of the candid reader, that this man, who had been [...] declared by the head of the Church of Christ, in a public instrument for the instruction and direction of all the faithful, that he was a man of very unsound doctrine, and guilty of many outrages against the holy see, should have been selected and appointed the sole plenipotentiary, delegate, and commissioner, on the part of the Church of Rome, to effect the desirable object of her reunion with the Church of England.
- 1852, Adadus Calpe [pseudonym; Antonio Diodoro de Pascual], chapter III, in Antonio Diodoro de Pascual, Henry Edgar, transl., The Two Fathers. […] Part First: The Ruins of the Paraclete, New York, N.Y.: Stringer & Townsend, […], →OCLC, page 35:
- Oh! M. de Vieux, this elixir, and the gallows, will suit you … that you may know what it is to enjoy … / He was going to continue, or to be silent, after these reticenses, but Kant interrupted one or both of these things, [...]
- 1896 May 2, Elbert Hubbard, “The Study”, in The Journal of Koheleth: Being a Reprint of the Book of Ecclesiastes with an Essay […], East Aurora, N.Y.: The Roycroft Printing Shop, →OCLC, page XX:
- The greatest egotist has his reticenses. It is only during the sessions of sweet silent thought that a man can summon his soul to judgment.
- 1970, Armando Cortesão, Pizzigano’s Chart of 1424 (Revista da Universidade de Coimbra; XXIV; Série Separatas (Agrupamento de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga (Portugal)); 40), Coimbra, Portugal: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar-Lisboa, →OCLC, page 19:
- That is why I regret that my arguments have not convinced many scholars, as shown by the reticenses of some here present.
- 2002, Jon P. Mitchell, Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 68:
- The honour of a household is inextricably linked to the reputation of the women who live there [...]. This reputation is sealed by their public display of shame, as manifest in a reticense towards appearing in public places.
Verb
[edit]reticense (third-person singular simple present reticenses, present participle reticensing, simple past and past participle reticensed)
- Archaic spelling of reticence.
- 1833 May, “Hayward’s Translation of Goethe’s “Faust””, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume VII, number XLI, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 532, column 1:
- [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.