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But it's time we retire this notion of Wooden as basketball's wise old man and see his legacy for what it is: a triumph of rigidity, bureaucracy, paternalism, and anal retentiveness.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2010

Richard as the eldest cherished her memory with a touching retentiveness.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by Hunter, William Wilson

Reten′tiveness, Retentiv′ity; Reten′tor, a muscle which serves to retain an organ in place.—Magnetic retentiveness, coercive force.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

She had become a legend and no one knew her exact age, she was creepin’ close to a hundred, and her memory which carried her back to the slave days was marvellous in its retentiveness.

From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, 156; consciously utilized, 161; in seed atom, 155; retentiveness of, 154.

From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Heindel, Max