- (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.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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