"silentious" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more silentious",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most silentious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the First",
          "text": "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;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1832, Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, pages 50–51",
          "text": "Can Bruce be other than Scotch? They are far more entertaining, I think, as well as informing, taken in the common run, than we silentious English; who, taken en masse, are tolerably dull.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, William Dean Howells, “Oxford”, in Certain Delightful English Towns, New York: Harper, page 205",
          "text": "It [the love of learning] is there [in Oxford] so fitly housed […] that it might almost dream itself a type of what should always and everywhere be an emanation of the literature to which it shall return after its earthly avatar, and rest, a blessed ghost, between the leaves of some fortunate book on an unvisited shelf of a vast silentious and oblivious library.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, M. P. Wright, chapter 39, in Heartman,, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, page 341",
          "text": "[…] As I’m fond of informing some of my less educated but wealthy clients, ‘silence is often the answer’. Let’s say ten thousand pounds or guineas: could that buy a silentious disposition, sir?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Habitually taciturn; prone to silence."
      ],
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          "taciturn",
          "taciturn"
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          "silence",
          "silence"
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      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "silentiously"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "silentious"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more silentious",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most silentious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the First",
          "text": "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;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1832, Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, pages 50–51",
          "text": "Can Bruce be other than Scotch? They are far more entertaining, I think, as well as informing, taken in the common run, than we silentious English; who, taken en masse, are tolerably dull.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, William Dean Howells, “Oxford”, in Certain Delightful English Towns, New York: Harper, page 205",
          "text": "It [the love of learning] is there [in Oxford] so fitly housed […] that it might almost dream itself a type of what should always and everywhere be an emanation of the literature to which it shall return after its earthly avatar, and rest, a blessed ghost, between the leaves of some fortunate book on an unvisited shelf of a vast silentious and oblivious library.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, M. P. Wright, chapter 39, in Heartman,, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, page 341",
          "text": "[…] As I’m fond of informing some of my less educated but wealthy clients, ‘silence is often the answer’. Let’s say ten thousand pounds or guineas: could that buy a silentious disposition, sir?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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  "word": "silentious"
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