单词 | tacenda |
释义 | tacendan. With plural agreement. Things to be passed over in silence; matters not to be mentioned. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > unmentionable topic(s) unmentionable1826 touch-me-not1832 tacenda1843 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. x. 125 Willelmus Sacrista, and his bibations and tacenda are..softly, yet irrevocably put an end to. 1870 S. H. Hodgson Theory of Pract. I. ii. 217 A greater number of things are classed among tacenda... The French term pudeur seems exactly to express the feeling which is called out painfully or wounded by an lifting of the veil of the tacenda. 1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 274 Topics..regarded as tacenda by society. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1843 |
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