Preservation :: Preservation (n.) The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices..
Self-preservation :: Self-preservation (n.) The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.