Noun
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 dictionaryAny 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