reticence
suomi-englanti sanakirjareticence englannista suomeksi
pidättyväisyys
Substantiivi
Verbi
reticence englanniksi
Avoidance of saying or reluctance to say too much; discretion, tight-lippedness; an instance of acting in this manner.
(synonyms)
(quote-book)|location=France|publisher=Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège|English College Press|year=1640|page=457|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLlbAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA19-PA3|oclc=1166338558|passage=You paſſe ouer their teſtimonies, & his whole diſcourſe out of them, with a fraudulent reticence of the particulars, and thinke to be euen with them, making vp by ſcoffing, what you cannot by arguing, ...
(quote-book)|location=Paris; London|publisher=(...) W. Simpkin and R. Marshall,(nb...)|year=1824|page=125|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-M4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125|oclc=22550848|passage=It must not be numbered among the obliviscences and reticenses of the candid reader, that this man, who had been ... declared by the head of the Church of Christ, in a public instrument for the instruction and direction of all the faithful, that ''he was a man of very unsound doctrine, and guilty of many outrages against the holy see'', should have been selected and appointed the sole plenipotentiary, delegate, and commissioner, on the part of the Church of Rome, to effect the ''desirable object of her'' reunion with the Church of England.
(RQ:Wilde Dorian Gray)
(quote-book)|location=East Aurora, N.Y.|publisher=The Roycroft Printing Shop|date=2 May 1896|page=XX|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/journalofkohelet00hubb/page/20/mode/1up|oclc=1178067|passage=The greatest egotist has his reticenses. It is only during the sessions of sweet silent thought that a man can summon his soul to judgment.
(RQ:Stoker Dracula)
(quote-book)
(antonyms)
(RQ:Dickens Edwin Drood)
''Followed by'' (l): discretion or restraint in the use of something.
(quote-journal) & Spottiswoode|Spottiswoode and Co.,(nb...)|date=21 May 1870|volume=XXIX|issue=760|page=667|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZBJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA667|column=2|oclc=970918069|passage=This is the reticence of temperament, and we see it in children from quite an early age—those children who are trusted by the servants, and are their favourites in consequence, because they tell no tales; but it is a disposition that may become dangerous unless watched, and that is always liable to degenerate into falsehood.
(quote-journal)
''Often followed by'' (l): hesitancy or reluctance (to do something).
(synonym of)
(quote-book); Parkyns Macmahon|chapter=Refutation of Madame de la Motte’s Memorial in that Part which Concerns the Comte de Cagliostro|title=Memorial, or Brief, for the Comte de Cagliostro, Defendant: against the King’s Attorney-General, Plaintiff: In the Cause of the (w), Comtesse de la Motte, and Others.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Debrett|John Debrett,(nb...); J. Macklew,(nb...); J. de Boff,(nb...)|year=1786|pages=76–77|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pvtbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA76|oclc=81111333|passage=If the de Valois-Saint-Rémy|Comteſſe de la Motte, contented to load me with opprobrious language, and to make uſe of inſidious reticences, does not accept of this formal challenge, I muſt declare to her, once for all, that I ſhall give to all her reticences, to all her obloquy, paſt, preſent, and to come, an anſwer very laconic, perfectly clear, moſt energetic, ... —(smallcaps) lie shamelessly.
(quote-book) Part First: The Ruins of the Paraclete|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Stringer & Townsend,(nb...)|year=1852|page=35|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QgctAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35|oclc=37611275|passage=Oh! M. de Vieux, this elixir, and the gallows, will suit you … that you may know what it is to enjoy … / He was going to continue, or to be silent, after these reticenses, but Kant interrupted one or both of these things, ...
To deliberately not listen or attention to; to disregard, to ignore.
(quote-journal)|month=May|year=1833|volume=VII|issue=XLI|page=532|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjHw88vHHkIC&pg=PA532|column=1|oclc=73210235|passage=Bysshe Shelley|Percy Bysshe Shelley, a true ''vates'', was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very ''Goethe's Faust|Faust'', which, from confessed inability, Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere|Francis Leveson-Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.
(quote-book)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Special Libraries Association|year=1990|year_published=1991|page=3|isbn=978-0-87111-371-9|passage=In the future, as we give these programs more and more direct control as we lose some of the general, reticenced fear of relying on computational technology, more and more of these errors—and more and more serious errors are going to occur|footer=(small) use.