reservation

RESERVA'TION, noun s as z. [Latin reservo.] 1. The act of reserving or keeping back or in the mind; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure; as mental reservation 2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. With reservation of a hundred knights. In the United States, a tract of land not sold with the rest, is called a reservation 3. Custody; state of being treasured up or kept in store. 4. In law, a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved, not conceded or granted; also, a proviso. Mental reservation is the withholding of expression or disclosure of something that affects a proposition or statement, and which if disclosed, would materially vary its import. Mental reservations are the refuge of hypocrites.