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reticent, a.|ˈrɛtɪsənt|
[ad. L. reticent-em, pres. pple. of reticēre, f. re- re- + tacēre to be silent.]
Reserved; disinclined to speak freely; given to silence or concealment.
a1834Lamb Letter to Coleridge (Latham), Upon this he is naturally reticent. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Result, They are slow and reticent. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. xii, Mr. Glegg..was extremely reticent about his will. 1873Symonds Gr. Poets iii. 89 Theognis recommends Cyrnus to be reticent, and not to communicate the whole of his plans even to his friends.
Hence ˈreticently adv.
1869Rossetti Mem. Shelley p. cxv, The ‘moral causes’ thus reticently referred to are..[not] distinctly apparent. |