silentious

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silentious

/saɪˈlɛn.ʃəs/

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Borrowed from Latin silentiōsus. By surface analysis, silence + -ous.

adjective more silentious · most silentious

Habitually taciturn; prone to silence. Yet Will had very good qualities too: gentle, tractable, and, above all, grateful; silentious, even to a fault: he spoke, at any time, very little, but made it up emphatically with action;

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@misc{silentious_2026,
  title = {silentious},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/silentious},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}