† reservancyn.
Obsolete. rare.
(a) Inclination to preserve something unchanged; conservatism. (b) Reservedness; = reservation n. 8. Cf. reservance n. 2.Recorded in the works of Richard Brathwait.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > resistance to change
reservancy1630
Toryism1786
unprogressiveness1829
conservatism1832
fossilism1861
stand-pattism1903
passéism1943
Luddism1967
Ludditism1971
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > reservation, proviso
conditionc1315
preveance?1316
purview1442
proviso1443
provision1450
saving1478
forprise1530
cautel1541
caveat1579
postulate1588
cautiona1593
non obstante1604
reservation1606
unless1606
reservancy1630
salvo1642
reserve1644
stipulation1792
reserver1807
get-out clause1912
clausula rebus sic stantibus1939
escape clause1945
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 16 It may appeare with what reservancie they continue their ancient Habit; loth..to introduce any new custome.
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 135 I doe thinke it fitting, that Gentlemen should be sociably affected, ever with a reservancie, with whom they keep company.
1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman sig. **2v Gentlewomen, without much reservancie, are not to frequent publike places of Society.
1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 176 There was neither Guard nor Garison, vnless there were one upon the Princes Person: and that with such reservancy, as if the regality of his Place had not exacted it; he could well have dispenst with it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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