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noun

Tact n.

The sense of touch; feeling. "Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?" "Now, sight is a very refined tact."

(Mus.) The stroke in beating time.

Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances. "He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin." "A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tact" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sir John Dalrymple's Appendix, (p. 103,) it appears, that the king had signed himself, without the participation of his ministers, a secret treaty with France, and had obtained a pension on the promise of his neutrality; a tact which renders his royal word, solemnly given to his subjects, one of the most dishonorable and most scandalous acts that ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. - From Charles II. to James II. • David Hume

... was restless and miserable, wandering from window to window to scan the dour, unsmiling sky. Carl White, dropping in to pay a call, was alarmed when he heard that Chester had gone with Joe, and had not tact enough to conceal ...

— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... to ask about Keith. He knew her curiosity to be lively, though he thought her tact would appreciate the situation with regard to Molly. "I've got some of my own," she continued. "There's been trouble out to Jim Plimsoll's. He shot at Wyatt or Wyatt at him, I don't know which rightly. But there was ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... action, of few words, of few feelings and strong ones, she saw the many-sided man of the world, whose mere versatility was a charm, and the thought of whose manifold experiences had in it a sort of mysterious fascination. Arnold de Curboil was above all a man of tact and light touch, accustomed to the society of women and skilled in the art of appealing to that unsatisfied vanity which is the basis of most imperfect feminine characters. There was nothing weak about him, and he was at least ...

— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford

... oratorical art Kossuth was a adept; he deprecated all honors to himself, and with great tact he transferred them to his country and to the cause that ...

— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 • George Boutwell

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