Word Meanings - RESERVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed
Additional info about word: RESERVATION
1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden. 3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. 4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. Shak. A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. A proviso. Kent. Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded. The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESERVATION)
- Abeyance
- Suspension
- reservation
- dormancy
- expectation
- intermission
- Reserve
- Reservation
- retention
- limitation
- withholding
- appropriation
- coyness
- shyness
- backwardness
- secretiveness
- taciturnity
- modesty
- restraint
- constraint
Related words: (words related to RESERVATION)
- RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DORMANCY
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. - APPROPRIATION
1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - COYNESS
The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden. Syn. -- Reserve; shrinking; shyness; backwardness; modesty; bashfulness. - EXPECTATION
The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act - MODESTY
1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy - SHYNESS
The quality or state of being shy. Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter. Syn. -- Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See Bashfulness. - WITHHOLD
1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall - WITHHOLDMENT
The act of withholding. - INTERMISSION
The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. 4. Intervention; interposition. Heylin. Syn. -- - RESERVATION
1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed - LIMITATION
1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible - CONSTRAINT
The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion; - WITHHOLDER
One who withholds. - SUSPENSION
A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. (more info) 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; - ABEYANCE
Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing, - TACITURNITY
Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay. - RETENTION
The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst , a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ - RESERVEE
One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor. - UNEXPECTATION
Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall. - DELIMITATION
The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone. - PREEXPECTATION
Previous expectation. - ILLIMITATION
State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall. - UNRESTRAINT
Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license. - IRRETENTION
Want of retaining power; forgetfulness. De Quincey. - UNRESERVED
Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n. - IMMODESTY
Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.