tact
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- Rhymes: -ækt
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tact (plural tacts)
- The sense of touch; feeling.
- Robert Southey
- Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?
- J. Le Conte
- Now, sight is a very refined tact.
- Robert Southey
- (music) The stroke in beating time.
- Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Careful consideration in dealing with others to avoid giving offense.
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careful consideration in dealing with others to avoid giving offense
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[edit] External links
- tact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- tact in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
