Adjective : a reserved seat. ,a quiet, reserved man. ,reserved comments. From Dictionary.com.
However, I have been instrumental of con - veying deliverance to many such, and I know you feel your need of deliverance also; and your reservedness is a bar to keep you in your present strong-hold, and this conscience has often told you. From Wordnik.com. [Gleanings of the Vintage, Or Letters to the Spiritual Edification of the ...] Reference
Pray, my dear, use not so much ceremony and reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [Ten American Girls From History] Reference
And this - this emotional reservedness, this clamming up - has never been more true for me than it has been during this first half-year of motherhood. From Wordnik.com. [How To Lose a Friend in 10 Months] Reference
And this – this emotional reservedness, this clamming up – has never been more true for me than it has been during this first half-year of motherhood. From Wordnik.com. [How To Lose a Friend in 10 Months | Her Bad Mother] Reference
The latter sometimes veneered by the outward Dutch reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Moderate Voice] Reference
You know the sternness, reservedness, and distance of his manners. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
I perfectly understand that our natural reservedness may preclude such frivolity, but let's see. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
Everyone comes to the Swedish summer party wearing a mask of Scandinavian self-control and reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Local - Sweden's news in English] Reference
There were innumerable reasons for this reservedness, reasons difficult to discern, even for their own eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House] Reference
At noon dined at home and Creed with me, who I do really begin to hate, and do use him with some reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
They both began with their customary reservedness but then, their attempt to be humorous at the press conference fell flat. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
Yet were the priests now and then angry with him for his great sedateness and reservedness, which they called pride and haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament.] Reference
I'm much more suited to the reservedness of British culture than the American need to have a constant conversation with everyone you meet. From Wordnik.com. [BarrenAlbion] Reference
I must say I love you; and have put on a behaviour to you, that was much against my heart, in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
If he has the national reservedness generally, it certainly vanishes in my husband's presence, for it seems as if he could not tell enough. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
Puritan turned with disgust: "A certain reservedness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem, kept me still above those low descents of mind.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660] Reference
It was now discovered for the first, that this singular passenger stammered and stuttered very badly, which, perhaps, was the cause of his reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes and chidings. From Wordnik.com. [Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 91-100] Reference
It is product releases such as Windows ME and Windows Vista, which both suffered terrible reputations when they were first released which have led to such reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [Neowin.net] Reference
If a man of Bishop Lane's reservedness could pass such strictures upon the Augusta Conference, then those who know him intimately also must know that conditions were very much worse than he pictured them. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status] Reference
Among such a people, a man may long live, little known, and less instructed; for their reservedness renders them uncommunicative, and their excessive haughtiness prevents them from being solicitous of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
And, which is farther remarkable in this matter, the apostles of our Lord, in all their writings, use the same reservedness, and, no doubt, by the direction of the same Spirit, concerning the blessed mother of our Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.] Reference
On his arrival at Cochin, the new governor offended many by the reservedness of his carriage and manners, and became particularly disagreeable to the rajah, who had been accustomed to the discreet and easy civility of Albuquerque. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04] Reference
Nothing is more difficult in that city, than to make acquaintances; There are no places where people meet and converse promiscuously: There is a reservedness and gravity in the manner of the inhabitants, which makes a stranger averse to approach them. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
Mr. Williams has been here; but we have had no opportunity to talk together: He seemed confounded at Mr.. Jewkes's change of temper, and reservedness, after her kind visit, and their freedom with one another, and much more at what I am going to tell you. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
Many wondered what Mrs. Aubrey intended me for, and did not hesitate to blame her for encumbering herself, as they termed it, with me; she was often teased with indelicate questions on the subject which she invariably answered with ambiguous reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Mystery] Reference
(reservedness of disposition, added to her secluded education, and the retirement in which) Tj. From Wordnik.com. [The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: a Modern Romance] Reference
Mr. Williams has been here; but we have had no opportunity to talk together: He seemed confounded at Mrs. Jewkes’s change of temper, and reservedness, after her kind visit, and their freedom with one another, and much more at what I am going to tell you. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
I think reservedness can be very nice indeed. From Wordnik.com. ["Wisconsin ranked second for 'extraversion' behind North Dakota and fifth for 'agreeableness,' again, behind No. 1 North Dakota..."] Reference
In spite of a "certain reservedness of natural disposition," which shrank from "festivities and jests, in which. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660] Reference
"Yes, I accept there is a reservedness, because the past experience of hung parliaments, minority governments has not always been good for Tasmania. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Good people overlook awkwardness or reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
The reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [How To Lose a Friend in 10 Months | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Thank goodness for that Nordic reservedness. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
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