retiracy

English

Noun

retiracy (usually uncountable, plural retiracies)

  1. (US, dated, chiefly humorous) retirement
    • C. A. Bristed
      what one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for retiracy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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