What is a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject called?
reticence — (Rhet.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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