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Webster 1913 Edition

Retiracy

Re-tir′a-cy

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Noun.

Retirement; – mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.

[U.S.]

Bartlett.

What one of our great men used to call dignified

retiracy

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C. A. Bristed.

Definition 2025

retiracy

retiracy

English

Noun

retiracy ‎(usually uncountable, plural retiracies)

(US, dated, chiefly humorous) retirement

What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. — C. A. Bristed.

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