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Example sentences for "mental reservation"

  • A Catholic can evade the force of any oath, by a mental reservation.

  • He will then abjure the other King with a mental reservation.

  • He now swears allegiance to one King with a mental reservation.

  • Knowing his worldwide reputation, I expected him to put her some problem in geometry, but he only asked whether a lie could be justified on the principle of a mental reservation.

  • They promised me to abstain from doing so--no doubt with a mental reservation, but I cared nothing about that.

  • Hedvig replied that there are cases in which a lie is necessary, but that the principle of a mental reservation is always a cheat.

  • The case is more difficult, however, if the reply is obscure in itself, that is, if use is made of ambiguity or mental reservation.

  • There are two kinds of mental reservation.

  • Other cases of mental reservation in Scripture are found in Eliseus (IV Kings, vi.

  • They are taken as a matter of necessity, and with a mental reservation, that when the interests of their State demands, they are freed from the obligation.

  • The State loyalty as being a mental reservation evermore to abrogate the oath of National loyalty:--what is it but a modern reproduction of the old Jesuit portent?

  • Mental reservation is an act of the mind, limiting the spoken phrase so that it may not bear the full sense which at first hearing it seems to bear.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental reservation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blind alley; dear wife; enlarged tonsils; great stone; ipso facto; little need; mental attitude; mental capacity; mental condition; mental depression; mental derangement; mental development; mental discipline; mental disorder; mental evolution; mental health; mental imagery; mental images; mental life; mental note; mental power; mental reservation; mental state; mental tests; mental traits; mental work