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Reticence
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
(2):
(n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Reticence'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/reticence.html. 1828.