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Reservedly

Reserved \Re*served"\ (-z?rvd"), a.

  1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

  2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.

    To all obliging, yet reserved to all.
    --Walsh.

    Nothing reserved or sullen was to see.
    --Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Re*serv"ed*ly (r?-z?rv"?d-l?), adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

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reservedly

adv. In a reserved manner.

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reservedly

adv. with reserve; in a reserved manner

Usage examples of "reservedly".

Fire of the Hermetics, secret, living, philosophical, spoken of reservedly, 775-u.

I put some Plymouth on ice for myself, drew the thinner, semiopaque drapery across the big windows, and found Walter Cronkite on a colorcast speaking evenly, steadily, reservedly of unspeakable international disasters.

I put some Plymouth on ice for myself, drew the thinner, semiopaque draperie across the big windows, and found Walter Cronkite on a colorcast speaking evenly, steadily, reservedly of unspeakable international disasters.

They shook hands reservedly now, each eyeing the other with a view to future possibilities.