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an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.[1600-10]
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Mental Reservation — • The name applied to a doctrine which has grown out of the common Catholic teaching about lying and which is its complement Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Mental Reservation Mental Reservation … Catholic encyclopedia
Mental reservation — Reservation Res er*va tion (r?z ?r v? sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r[ e]servation, LL. reservatio. See {Reserve}.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. [1913 Webster] With reservation of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mental reservation — index ambivalence Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
mental reservation — n. a qualification (of a statement) that one makes to oneself but does not express … English World dictionary
Mental Reservation (album) — Mental Reservation Studio album by Scanner Released 1995 … Wikipedia
mental reservation — The internal act of adding a qualification to, or exploiting an ambiguity in one s words, or privately vowing that one does not mean what one is saying, like children keeping their fingers crossed in order to nullify a promise they are making.… … Philosophy dictionary
mental reservation — noun an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly • Syn: ↑reservation, ↑arriere pensee • Hypernyms: ↑doubt, ↑uncertainty, ↑incertitude, ↑dubiety, ↑doubtfulness, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mental reservation — Умственное сокрытие … Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов
mental reservation — A silent exception to the general words of a promise or agreement not expressed, on account of a general understanding on the subject. But the word has been applied to an exception existing in the mind of the one party only, and has been degraded … Black's law dictionary
mental reservation — A silent exception to the general words of a promise or agreement not expressed, on account of a general understanding on the subject. But the word has been applied to an exception existing in the mind of the one party only, and has been degraded … Black's law dictionary
