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Definition of Silent treatment
1. Noun. An aloof refusal to speak to someone you know.
Definition of Silent treatment
1. Noun. A form of social sanction that consists of ignoring a particular individual, neither speaking to them nor responding to their words. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silent Treatment
Literary usage of Silent treatment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quimby Manuscripts: Showing the Discovery of Spiritual Healing and the by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1921)
"Hence a gradual change in consciousness and attitude followed upon the remarkable
effects of the silent treatment which lifted her out of her invalidism. ..."
2. The Quimby Manuscripts Showing the Discovery of Spiritual Healing and the by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Horatio Willis Dresser (1921)
"Hence a gradual change in consciousness and attitude followed upon the remarkable
effects of the silent treatment which lifted her out of her invalidism. ..."
3. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"George said, "Well, something's happening and I don't know why my colleagues in
the States, Geneva and Berlin are all getting a strange silent treatment by ..."
4. The Spirit of the New Thought by Horatio Willis Dresser (1917)
"The mental process is supplemented and strengthened by the spiritual phase of
the silent treatment, namely, the realization of the presence of God. ..."
5. Science of the New Thought by Erastus Whitford Hopkins (1904)
"A silent treatment. However, I commenced silent treatment under the above seeming
discouraging circumstances. I had treated the case for four or five days ..."
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