reticence (retisens)

[ Many times, I wis, a smile, a reticence or keeping silence, may well expre a speech, and make it more emphatical. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 841. I found, Instead of scornful pity or pure scorn, Such fine reserve and noble reticence . Tennyson, Geraint. 2. In rhet., aposiopesis.=Syn. 1. Reserve, taciturnity.