Definition of Silence

Silence The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness. Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness. Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence. The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence. Absence of mention; oblivion. Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence. To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush. To put to rest; to quiet. To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy. Related Definitions: Absence, Absolute, Act, Agitation, An, Any, As, Batteries, Be, Being, By, Calmness, Cannonade, Cause, Cease, Cessation, Compel, Elliptically, Enemy, Entire, Especially, Exercise, Firing, For, Forbearance, From, Function, Gospel, Hush, In, Instruction, Keep, Let, Like, Mention, Minister, Muteness, Noise, Oblivion, Of, Or, Preaching, Privilege, Put, Quiet, Rage, Reduced, Rest, Restrain, Secrecy, Silence, Silent, Sound, Speech, State, Still, Stillness, Taciturnity, The, There, These, To, Transacted, Used, Vigorous, Were

Silence Quotations In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. Thomas Jefferson To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham Lincoln To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men. Abraham Lincoln Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. Muhammad Ali

Silence Translations silence in Dutch is kalmte, rust, rustigheid, stilte silence in Italian is calma, tacere, ristoro silence in Latin is silentium silence in Spanish is sosiego, acallar, silencio silence in Swedish is tystnad, stillhet, tysthet