reticenses

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English

Noun

reticenses

  1. plural of reticense (archaic spelling of reticences)

Noun

reticenses pl (plural only)

  1. Archaic spelling of reticences.
    • 1845 November, L. Mariotti, “Morello; or, The Organ Boy’s Progress”, in W Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXV, number CCXCIX, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, chapter IX (Morello at Bow-Street), page 312:
      It required the blandishments and even the threats of the magistrate, to induce him to repeat his story; and then it came so involved and disfigured by innumerable reticenses and circumlocutions; he made such a sad jumble of it that no doubt remained in the magistrate's mind, and but little in the boy's own partisans', that the whole tale was an illgot-up fabrication, [...]
    • 1853, “Art. III.—Selections from the Records of the Bengal Government—No. IX. Report on the Teak Forests of the Tenasserim Provinces. By H. Falconer, Calcutta, 1852. ”, in The Calcutta Review, volume XXI, number XLI, Calcutta: Sanders, Cones & Co., , →OCLC, page 155:
      he endeavour to cloak the gubernatorial derelictions of duty, [...] is defeated as much by the revelations of the publication under review, as by its reticenses.
    • 1923 May, “The Pornographic Spanish Novel”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 325, column 2:
      A Spanish novel writer who cannot be accused of undue sex reticenses is Vicente Blasco Ibanez, [...]

Verb

reticenses

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reticense (archaic spelling of reticences)

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