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Muteness

noun
1.
The condition of being unable or unwilling to speak.  Synonym: mutism.
2.
A refusal to speak when expected.  Synonym: silence.



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"Muteness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the desert, compared with this place? what the uncommunicating muteness of fishes?—here the goddess reigns and revels.—"Boreas, and Cesias, and Argestes loud," do not with their inter-confounding uproars more augment the brawl—nor the waves of the blown Baltic with their clubbed sounds—than their opposite (Silence her sacred self) ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... come, driven by the prompting of her heart, to look out to the Mediterranean and wonder where, between its gates at Gibraltar and Suez, Benton might at that moment be. And from the balcony she had seen him in the garden and had heard a part of this talk before the spell of her astounded muteness ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck

... mule boy. mulo, -a mule. multitud f. multitude. mullir to beat up; to make soft. mundanal worldly. mundo world. murmurar to murmur, backbite. muro wall. musica music. musico musician. musulman, -a Mohammedan. mutilar to mutilate. mutismo muteness. ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

... expression of muteness about the mouth of Zacharias, as he stands by the altar, is wonderfully given; you feel sure he could not speak if he would. The other figures are superfluous to the motive, though adding grandeur to the work ...
— Fra Bartolommeo • Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)

... What could this portend? Such muteness he had never shown; Was he so very near the end? Ah, Leo, had I ...
— Poems • John L. Stoddard


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