retiracy

English

Noun

retiracy (usually uncountable, plural retiracies)

1. (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

• “retiracy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.