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reservation

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The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

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

A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.

The state of being reserved, or kept in store.

A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

A proviso.

The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. Andrew Jackson

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. Sherman Alexie

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. Alex Cox

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. Chief Joseph

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed. Sherman Alexie

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. René Descartes

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