All 6 Uses

tact
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The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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He carried out his resolve with a great deal of tact, and the young lady found in renewed contact with him no obstacle to the exercise of her genius for unshrinking enquiry, the general application of her confidence.†
Chpt 11

tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
"On this supposition," said Ralph, "he must regard her as a thorn on the stem of his rose; as an intercessor he must find her wanting in tact."†
Chpt 13 *
Like many ladies of her country who had lived a long time in Europe, she had completely lost her native tact on such points, and in her reaction, not in itself deplorable, against the liberty allowed to young persons beyond the seas, had fallen into gratuitous and exaggerated scruples.†
Chpt 15
On the other hand she was equally sure that, should the occasion offer, her new friend would strike off some happy view of her old: Madame Merle was too humorous, too observant, not to do justice to Henrietta, and on becoming acquainted with her would probably give the measure of a tact which Miss Stackpole couldn't hope to emulate.†
Chpt 19
She is incapable of a mistake; she's the most tactful woman I know.†
Chpt 19

tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
But he says such things with great tact.†
Chpt 19

tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them

Definitions:

(1) (tact)
the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)