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reservedness|rɪˈzɜːvdnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being reserved; reserve, reticence, caution.
1609Daniel Civ. Wars viii. lii, Her lookes, not let abrode (but carefully Kept in, restraind) held their reservednesse. 1624Bedell Lett. iii. 71 It is a wise reseruednesse in them, not to intermedle with that wherein they might easily fault. 1676G. Towerson Decalogue 396 They shall..at all times use..that reservedness and modesty in their outward deportment. 1711Addison Spect. No. 57 ⁋6 A Woman is too sincere to..act with that Caution and Reservedness which are requisite in our Sex. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) II. ix. 123 Sir Charles's reservedness..may not let them know the secrets of his heart in this particular. 1797Jane Austen Sense & Sens. xviii, The reservedness of his manner towards her contradicted one moment what a more animated look had intimated the preceding one. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 58 Is this reservedness of affirmation about God less worthy of him, than the..licence of affirmation of our dogmatists..? |