reserved

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RESERV'ED, participle passive 1. Kept for another or future use; retained. 2. adjective Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward in conversation; not free or frank. To all obliging, yet reserv'd to all. Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see.
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