retiracy
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]retiracy (usually uncountable, plural retiracies)
- (US, dated, chiefly humorous) retirement
- 1845, Samuel Maunder, John Inman, The Treasury of History:
- The patriot commanders in the middle of January went into retiracy, having with much judgment commended the forces under them to their own discretion
- 1852, C. A. Bristed, The upper ten thousand:
- what one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy
References
[edit]- “retiracy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.