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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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