The condition of being unable or unwilling to speak.
A refusal to speak when expected.
1 She turned abruptly away, and stood at a distance in gloomy muteness .
2 Not the muteness of the one who'd read and then suddenly stopped.
3 But before the singular muteness of this family sounds would not come.
4 Thy muteness even is like to strangle me, thou abysmal mute one!
5 After a long while I turned around in the muteness of my despair.
6 Presently he fell into absolute muteness , and lay wearily back in his chair.
7 One felt her, was repulsed or possessed by her, even in her muteness .
8 Another factor could be Nazaret's muteness , which prevents him from articulating his feelings.
9 She bit her lips, as if to compel them to muteness .
10 We slept close, knowing we could not have such pleasure without such muteness .
11 It meant that there was something out there to frighten everything else into muteness .
12 But her muteness caused him to turn and regard her.
13 Rhoda, with a sign, tempered him to muteness , and the three eyed one another.
14 M. Lecoq's obstinate muteness annoyed Plantat, who finally asked him:
15 It had spoken to me eloquently, despite the muteness of the myriad tongues it had.
16 For the kerb uproar "the uncommunicating muteness of fishes" was the only panacea.
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