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Meanings of mental reservation in English

Spanish
reservas

An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly.

reservas
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Examples for "reservation"
Examples for "reservation"
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A health declaration will be required as part of the reservation process.
Reuters
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MICROS supplies information systems such as central reservation for the hospitality industry.
The Irish Times
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This first tribal investment became a national model for reservation land reform.
Feminist dot com
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The human delegation's personal bona fides are accepted without reservation or question.
Fire With Fire
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Instead, Britain needs to uphold its laws and its values without reservation.
The Guardian
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Force is always the arriere pensee of the individual and the autocrat.
The Devil's Paw
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Then Cedric looked at him as if he suspected some arriere pensee.
Herb of Grace
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No, assuredly he did not rest; but he worked now with no arriere pensee for the greater glory of God.
Eminent Victorians
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"You would not dare to say that if Elizabeth were in the room," but Dinah spoke quite innocently and had no arriere pensee.
Herb of Grace
Usage of mental reservation in English
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The difficulty was reconciled to her own conscience by a mental reservation.
Home Lights and Shadows
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Burleigh accepted for self and partner, Loomis for himself, with mental reservation.
Warrior Gap: A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68.
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But now we have the real explanation -it is mental reservation.
The Irish Times
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He will then abjure the other King with a mental reservation.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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There is neither hypocrisy, caprice, nor mental reservation in her favours.
Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Instituti...
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Lidgerwood put the query aside finally, but with a mental reservation.
The Taming of Red Butte Western
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He now swears allegiance to one King with a mental reservation.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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These three propositions can be stated without limitation or mental reservation.
In His Image
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Such mental reservation on your part is every thing but kind.
The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2)
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We are required to take them absolutely, without any reversion of mental reservation.
Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
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Orde stirred uneasily with a mental reservation as to selfishness, but said nothing.
The Riverman
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He had promised his assistance, but not without a mental reservation.
The Count's Millions
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Dyckman, however, had been ashamed of a mental reservation or two.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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You aren't making any kind of mental reservation in his case, are you?'
The Motormaniacs
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With a mental reservation in favour of investigating the forecastle, I went on deck.
The Mystery
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I shall now give it an answer in perfect sincerity, without the slightest mental reservation.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 / of Sixty Years in the National ...
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