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Webster 1913 Edition

Taciturn

Tac′i-turn

,
Adj.
[L.
taciturnus
: cf. F.
taciturne
. See
Tacit
.]
Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
–
Tac′i-turn-ly
,
adv.
Syn. – Silent; reserved.
Taciturn
,
Silent
. Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn from disposition. The loquacious man is at times silent; one who is taciturn may now and then make an effort at conversation.

Webster 1828 Edition

Taciturn

TAC'ITURN

,
Adj.
[L. taciturnus.] Habitually silent; not free to converse; not apt to talk or speak.

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taciturn

taciturn

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taciturn ‎(comparative more taciturn, superlative most taciturn)

  1. Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
    The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:
      We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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taciturn m ‎(feminine taciturna, masculine plural taciturns, feminine plural taciturnes)

  1. taciturn

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From French taciturne, likely reinforced by Latin taciturnus, from tacitus ‎(“secret, tacit”).

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