Crossword-Solution: RETICENCE 9 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Reticence 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.
Reticence 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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RETICENCE anagram CENTERICE

We have 30 clues for the answer “RETICENCE”

Clue Answers
Uncommunicative state. 1 answer
Tendency to keep silent 1 answer
Tendency to be reserved 1 answer
SOCIAL reserve 1 answer
Restraint in speaking. 1 answer
HABITUAL reserve in speech 1 answer
Disposition to say little. 1 answer
Reserved quality 2 answers
Taciturnity 3 answers
uncommunicativeness 6 answers
retainment 6 answers
keeping back 7 answers
A DEEPLY-INGRAINED TENDENCY 10 answers
muteness 10 answers
retention 15 answers
guardedness 16 answers
judiciousness 16 answers
furtiveness 16 answers
Shyness? 16 answers
secretiveness 17 answers
evasiveness 17 answers
Watchfulness 19 answers
stealth 24 answers
Vigilance 25 answers
repression 26 answers
Wariness 28 answers
secrecy 32 answers
Scheme 61 answers
Restraint 87 answers
Reserve 95 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RETICENCE (5)

But she forbore to utter this feeling, and the reticence of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more noticeable.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Then there was his unaccountable disappearance for weeks; there was von Horn’s strange reticence and seeming ignorance as to the circumstances which brought the young man to the island, or his equally unaccountable disappearance after having rescued her from Number One.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
For a long time, even with the utmost discretion and reticence, it would have been impossible to make the facts public, but now the principal person concerned is beyond the reach of human law, and with due suppression the story may be told in such fashion as to injure no one.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Lapham wanted to know what the news from Irene was; he joined his wife in all her cheerful speculations, and tried to make her amends for his sullen reticence and irritability.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
But it was on Roderick’s conscience that this air belied him, and he was too frank by nature, moreover, for permanent reticence on any point.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with RETICENCE (3)

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
Kakuzo Okakura The Book of Tea
Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*, authentic *Being*-one’s-Self is just the sort of thing that does not keep on saying ‘I’; but in its reticence it ‘*is*’ that thrown entity as which it can authentically be. The Self which the reticence of resolute existence unveils is the primordial phenomenal basis for the question as to the Being of the ‘I’. Onl…
Martin Heidegger
It was in her garden that whatever physical grace Abigail St. Croix possessed asserted itself. She moved among her flowers with consummate natural fluidity, enjoying the incommunicable pleasures of growing things with the patience and concentration of a watchmaker. In this, her small, green country, surrounded by an embrasure of old Charleston brick, there were camellias of distinction, eight discrete varieties of azaleas, and a host of other flowers, but she directed her pri…
Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline
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Used 11 times in crossword archives (1952–2020).