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单词 reticence
释义 ret·i·cence
\ˈred.əsən(t)s, -etəs-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French réticence, from Latin reticentia, from reticent-, reticens (present participle of reticēre to keep silent) + -ia -y
1. : the quality or state or an instance of being reticent : restraint in speaking or communicating : reserve
 < people who speak their minds and their souls without reticence — Gerald Bullett >
 < difference between stony reticence and a torrent of impulsive unbosoming — W.S.Gilbert >
 < after the death of a writer certain reticences need no longer be observed — Leon Edel >
 < a man of few reticences, the disc jockey must rank among the most thoroughly overt — C.W.Morton >
2. : restraint in behavior, expression, or performance
 < the value of reticence in art — Thomas Wood †1950 >
 < accompaniment in duo-piano playing requires even more reticence than is necessary in accompanying a voice or another instrument — A.E.Wier >
 < family was Quakerlike in its emotional reticence — H.S.Canby >
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