taciturnity

IPA: tˈæsɪtɝnɪti

The trait of being taciturn.
(law, Scotland) Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.

Examples of "taciturnity" in Sentences

Soon they were all talking at once, rumbling and roaring as big - chested open-air men will, when whisky has whipped their taciturnity.
They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence.
Bersonin, who despite his taciturnity was a patient teacher, instructed me in Danish, but possibly because he himself only spoke it at second hand, I didn't take to it easily.
At first both were silent, for Lord Ulswater used the ordinary privilege of a lover and was absent and absorbed, and his companion was never the first to break a taciturnity natural to his habits.
In the West, his reserve with men had been labelled taciturnity or swollen-headeduess, which did not fit the case at all; whilst, in spite of his perfect manner towards them, his indifference to woman _en masse_ or in the individual was supreme and sincere.
Sensible of his father's humble, but yet respectable position, he neither attempted to swagger himself into importance by an affectation of superior breeding or contempt for his parent, nor did he manifest any of that sullen taciturnity which is frequently preserved, as a proof of superiority, or a mask for conscious ignorance and bad breeding; the fact being generally forgotten that it is an exponent of both.