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Definition of Reservedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reservedness
Literary usage of Reservedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1836)
"... his circumstances being such, that without such a prudent carriage and
reservedness, he could not have gone through the work which he came to do; ..."
2. An Ethical Essay: Or, an Attempt to Enumerate the Several Duties which We by Edward Augustus Holyoke (1830)
"Revenge may give a momentary Pleasure, but the Infliction of Misery is, in no
Case, the Means of Happiness. reservedness, SUSPICION, JEALOUSY. ..."
3. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1875)
"In spite of "a certain -reservedness of natural disposition," which shrank
from "festivities and jests, in which I acknowledge my faculty to be very slight ..."
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