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/mˈɛntəl rˌɛzərvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Reservation n.

1.

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. "With reservation of an hundred knights." "Make some reservation of your wrongs."

2.

Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.

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.

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. Note: 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.

7.

An agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz.

Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

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Etymology of 'Mental reservation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mental reservation" Quotes from Famous Books

... that I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever and without any dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that ...

— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins

... manifestly inconsistent with any natural interpretation of the Fourteen Points which all the belligerents had accepted as the basis of the armistice and consequent peace; and they were not such as any Power could be expected to sign without an effort to get them amended before peace was concluded or a mental reservation to procure their modification as soon as might be thereafter. The German delegates, with Count Brockdorff-Rantzau at their head, did their best to expose the inconsistencies between the Allies' professions and their performance, and to secure a reconsideration of ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

... voted that Judith was to be received into the family, Mr. Bob Bucknor making a mental reservation that he would not divulge the news to his wife and daughters until they were well out of Kentucky. He had strong hopes that European travel might soften the hearts of his daughters towards their pretty, ...

— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson

... tendered voluntarily was in terms apparently no less strong than the bond which they refused, it was conjectured that the former piece had been drawn up by their ghostly fathers with some private equivocation or mental reservation; a suspicion which receives strong confirmation from the characters and subsequent conduct of some of these persons,—the most noted fanatics certainly of their party,—and amongst whom we read the names of ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... the absence of poor Plunket, who set off for Ireland with little hope of finding his wife alive, we made a very good figure last night. Castlereagh spoke better than I ever heard him. You will see that your suggestion of adding some words to exclude all mental reservation is adopted—that is to say, both Phillimore and Castlereagh last night stated the willingness of the promoters of the Bill to admit them, if any person thought it desirable to move their insertion. Burrell, notwithstanding what he had said, came and voted against us; but Curteis and Fox Lane, instead ...

— Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) - From the Original Family Documents • Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

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