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Webster 1913 Edition
Reservation
1.
The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
A. Smith.
With
reservation
of an hundred knights. Shakespeare
Make some
reservation
of your wrongs. Shakespeare
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.
[U.S.]
4.
The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
Shak.
5.
(Law)
(a)
A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
(b)
A proviso.
Kent.
☞ This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.
6.
(Eccl.)
(a)
The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
(b)
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Reservation
RESERVA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of reserving or keeping back or in the mind; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure; as mental reservation.2.
Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.With reservation of a hundred knights.
In the United States, a tract of land not sold with the rest, is called a reservation.
3.
Custody; state of being treasured up or kept in store.4.
In law, a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved, not conceded or granted; also, a proviso.Mental reservation is the withholding of expression or disclosure of something that affects a proposition or statement, and which if disclosed, would materially vary its import.
Mental reservations are the refuge of hypocrites.
Definition 2024
reservation
reservation
See also: réservation
English
Noun
reservation (plural reservations)
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- (often plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt.
- I have reservations about your intentions.
- (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- (Britain) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.
- (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
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act of withholding
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limiting qualification
tract of land
arrangement by which something is secured in advance
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area that separates opposing traffic lanes
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Middle French
Noun
reservation f (plural reservations)
- reservation (limiting qualification)
Descendants
- English: reservation
- French: réservation