The Only Use
taciturn
in
Pride and Prejudice
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- 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.†
p. 90.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(taciturn) with a tendency to be reserved and not to talkSynonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Consider using reticent rather than taciturn when the reluctance to talk is brought on by a particular situation rather than being a general disposition. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)