laconism

The only time he abandoned his Trappist laconism was when Alba went to visit him in his tunnel of books.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The horrible proposition, more so from its very laconism, despite the auditory to whom it is addressed, does not find favourable response.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

He never spoke much himself; of a truth, his gentle, immutable laconism was the only charge that his comrades ever brought against him.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

Their creator's remarks about them are sometimes of a marvellous subtlety, expressed in a laconism which seems to regard Marivaudage or Meredithese with an aristocratic disdain.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

First he had not sufficient command of English to translate with the necessary laconism and assonance: secondly in his day British Philistinism was too rampant to permit a literal translation.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton