Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.

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  • adjective Habitually taciturn, prone to silence

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Examples

  • At far greater houses there was more gayety, at richer houses there was more freedom; the suppression at Mrs. Horn's was a personal, not a social, effect; it was an efflux of her character, demure, silentious, vague, but very correct.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • At far greater houses there was more gayety, at richer houses there was more freedom; the suppression at Mrs. Horn's was a personal, not a social, effect; it was an efflux of her character, demure, silentious, vague, but very correct.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

  • At far greater houses there was more gayety, at richer houses there was more freedom; the suppression at Mrs. Horn's was a personal, not a social, effect; it was an efflux of her character, demure, silentious, vague, but very correct.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

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