Definition of "reservedness" []

• The characteristic of being reserved. (noun)

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• "However, I have been instrumental of con - veying deliverance to many such, and I know you feel your need of deliverance also; and your reservedness is a bar to keep you in your present strong-hold, and this conscience has often told you."
• "And this – this emotional reservedness, this clamming up – has never been more true for me than it has been during this first half-year of motherhood."
• "I must say I love you; and have put on a behaviour to you, that was much against my heart, in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness."