The Wonderful World Of Words, 2/26/17
“If Henry had learned anything, it was to reveal nothing that’s best left unsaid.”
― Sascha Arango, The Truth and Other Lies
DEFINITION:
Noun -
Things not to be mentioned in polite company. "Elepant in the room". Taboo subjects.
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
Latin (taceo “I am silent”)
PRONUNCIATION:
[tuh-SIN-Da]
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
10, Hasbro claims this word to not be an official Scrabble word, but it may simply be a bit too TACENDA to admit it publicly.
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
That he was a fanatical moralist was something not even the broadest-minded among them suspected; they only knew that he meddled with a subject that was hitherto considered TACENDA, and with dire results. Nowadays the thesis of Spring's Awakening is not so novel.
--Ivory Apes and Peacocks
James Huneker, 1915
Most people who attempted such a task would sink into being miserable blabbers of TACENDA, mere sieves through which matters of secret importance would granulate into the hands of ardent journalists. But at once to stimulate and gratify curiosity, and to give a quiet circle the sense of being admitted to the inmost penetralia of affairs, is a triumph of conversational art.
--From a College Window
Arthur Christopher Benson, 1906
Sorry, I lack self-control sometimes. lol
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