diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/tools.go b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/tools.go
index 4a0af90..51a662b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/tools.go
@@ -67,9 +67,10 @@ func toolsOf(p *grants.Part) []stdio.Tool {
 			Run:   func(a map[string]any) (any, error) { return p.Grants(grants.Answer(a, "module")) }},
 		{Name: grants.ToolMembership, Description: "One module's membership on one node (ADR 0547 clause 6): as composed now from the " +
 			"bus's records with the bus composer, and what the part's process published of it at its last pass (published, " +
-			"unchanged, or why not: a shadow difference names what publishing would lose), with what the composition cannot " +
-			"read. Read-only.",
-			Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine", "module": "the module"}, "node", "module"),
+			"unchanged, or why not: a shadow difference names what publishing would lose; verbs the seat catalogue retired are " +
+			"dropped and named), with what the composition cannot read. With neither node nor module: every membership the last " +
+			"pass held back, each with what it would lose. Read-only.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine (with module)", "module": "the module (with node)"}),
 			Run: func(a map[string]any) (any, error) {
 				return p.MembershipOf(grants.Answer(a, "node"), grants.Answer(a, "module"))
 			}},
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
index f4d4315..17d4053 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
@@ -639,6 +639,17 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 				m["serves"] = append(m["serves"].([]any), map[string]any{"subject": "mesh.mod.mod-x.tool.gone"})
 				return m
 			}, false, "tool.gone"},
+			// A verb the seat catalogue retired on purpose (mark-ready, mesh-sdk d506f21, ADR 0421) is dropped and named; a
+			// verb of a seat the catalogue does not define is still a loss (issue 1945).
+			{"a change that drops only a retired seat verb is published, the verb named", func(m map[string]any) map[string]any {
+				m["seats"] = []any{map[string]any{"seat": "mesh-delivery", "verb": "mark-ready", "subject": "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.mark-ready"}}
+				return m
+			}, true, "mesh-delivery mark-ready"},
+			{"a retired verb and a module seat's verb dropped: not published, the module seat's named", func(m map[string]any) map[string]any {
+				m["seats"] = []any{map[string]any{"seat": "mesh-delivery", "verb": "mark-ready", "subject": "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.mark-ready"},
+					map[string]any{"seat": "telegram-sender", "verb": "send", "subject": "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.tool.send"}}
+				return m
+			}, false, "telegram-sender"},
 		} {
 			t.Run(row.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 				b := fixture()
@@ -653,9 +664,12 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 					t.Fatalf("published %v, not published %v", res.Published, res.NotPublished)
 				}
 				if row.published {
-					if row.last != nil && !strings.Contains(string(b.stream["mesh.assignment."+key]), "10.0.0.1") {
+					if row.names == "" && row.last != nil && !strings.Contains(string(b.stream["mesh.assignment."+key]), "10.0.0.1") {
 						t.Errorf("the private network of the last membership is not carried: %s", b.stream["mesh.assignment."+key])
 					}
+					if raw, _, _, _ := b.ownGet(grants.StateMemberships, key); !strings.Contains(string(raw), row.names) {
+						t.Errorf("the pass does not name %q: %s", row.names, raw)
+					}
 					return
 				}
 				said := strings.Join(res.NotPublished, "\n")
@@ -707,6 +721,49 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	})
 
+	t.Run("memberships held back: every one is said and listed", func(t *testing.T) {
+		b := fixture()
+		b.loaded = shadowOf(t, b)
+		recs, _ := grants.Records(grants.ReadInputs(b, &grants.Manifests{}))
+		b.stream, b.seqs = map[string][]byte{}, map[string]uint64{}
+		for i, key := range []string{"a.mod-x", "b.mod-y"} {
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(grants.Memberships(recs)[key].Membership)
+			var m map[string]any
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &m)
+			m["serves"] = append(m["serves"].([]any), map[string]any{"subject": "mesh.mod.lost.tool.gone"})
+			raw, _ = json.Marshal(m)
+			subject := "mesh.assignment." + key
+			b.stream[subject], b.seqs[subject] = raw, uint64(i+1)
+		}
+		var logged []string
+		var lmu sync.Mutex
+		w := &fakeWatcher{opened: make(chan string, 16)}
+		f := &grants.Follower{Part: partOn(b), Watch: w, Logf: func(format string, args ...any) {
+			lmu.Lock()
+			logged = append(logged, fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
+			lmu.Unlock()
+		}}
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+		done := make(chan struct{})
+		go func() { f.Run(ctx); close(done) }()
+		waitFor(t, func() bool {
+			lmu.Lock()
+			defer lmu.Unlock()
+			all := strings.Join(logged, "\n")
+			return strings.Contains(all, "held a.mod-x: ") && strings.Contains(all, "held b.mod-y: ")
+		})
+		cancel()
+		<-done
+		held, err := partOn(b).MembershipOf("", "")
+		h, _ := held.(map[string]any)
+		if err != nil || h["count"] != 2 || !strings.Contains(fmt.Sprint(h["held"]), "tool.gone") {
+			t.Errorf("grants_membership with neither node nor module = %v, %v", held, err)
+		}
+		if _, err := partOn(b).MembershipOf("a", ""); err == nil {
+			t.Error("a node without a module was answered")
+		}
+	})
+
 	t.Run("a refused read or write never stops it", func(t *testing.T) {
 		b := fixture()
 		b.loaded = shadowOf(t, b)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/follow.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/follow.go
index 62362ca..b8a33de 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/follow.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/follow.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package grants
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
@@ -35,6 +36,8 @@ type Follower struct {
 	watched map[string]bool
 	refused map[string]string
 	have    map[string]string
+	// held is what the last pass held back, said again only when it changes.
+	held string
 }
 
 func (f *Follower) init() {
@@ -142,6 +145,23 @@ func (f *Follower) open() {
 	}
 }
 
+// said logs every membership the pass held back, each with what it would lose (issue 1945), when the set changes from
+// the last pass's.
+func (f *Follower) said(res Result) {
+	if held := strings.Join(res.NotPublished, "\n"); held != f.held {
+		f.held = held
+		if len(res.NotPublished) == 0 {
+			f.logf("no membership held back")
+		} else {
+			f.logf("%d memberships not published, tried again at the next event (grants_membership with no node and module lists them):",
+				len(res.NotPublished))
+			for _, n := range res.NotPublished {
+				f.logf("held %s", n)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // Run composes at start and after every change until ctx ends. It returns only when ctx ends.
 func (f *Follower) Run(ctx context.Context) {
 	f.init()
@@ -159,9 +179,7 @@ func (f *Follower) Run(ctx context.Context) {
 			if len(res.Published) > 0 {
 				f.logf("published %d memberships: %v", len(res.Published), res.Published)
 			}
-			if len(res.NotPublished) > 0 {
-				f.logf("%d memberships not published, tried again at the next event; the first: %s", len(res.NotPublished), res.NotPublished[0])
-			}
+			f.said(res)
 			if res.Written {
 				f.logf("the shadow list moved to revision %d: %d users, %d differing from the loaded list",
 					res.Revision, res.UserList.Users, len(res.UserList.Compare.Differing()))
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go
index 6291542..d617ff8 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/membership"
 )
 
@@ -41,6 +42,9 @@ type Membership struct {
 	// Published says what became of it at the last pass: "published", "unchanged" (equal to the one last published),
 	// or why it was not.
 	Published string `json:"published"`
+	// Retired are the seat verbs the last membership served that mesh-sdk's seat catalogue no longer has, `<seat>
+	// <verb>`: dropped on purpose, so their loss does not hold the membership back (issue 1945).
+	Retired []string `json:"retired,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Memberships composes every assignment's membership from the records (buscompose.MembershipFor, as the controller's
@@ -101,7 +105,9 @@ func publish(p Publisher, m Membership) (Membership, bool) {
 	// composed with no root-free judgement, a kind's verified-sender would be dropped, and the operator's approvals by
 	// a channel would no longer be honoured. Any loss stays a shadow difference, named.
 	if found {
-		if lost := Losses(was, body); len(lost) > 0 {
+		kept, retired := WithoutRetired(was)
+		m.Retired = retired
+		if lost := Losses(kept, body); len(lost) > 0 {
 			m.Published = ShadowDifference + strings.Join(lost, "; ")
 			return m, false
 		}
@@ -114,6 +120,61 @@ func publish(p Publisher, m Membership) (Membership, bool) {
 	return m, true
 }
 
+// WithoutRetired is a membership without the seat verbs it serves that mesh-sdk's seat catalogue no longer has (a verb
+// retired on purpose, such as the delivery seat's mark-ready, ADR 0421), and those verbs, `<seat> <verb>`, once each. A
+// seat the catalogue does not define (a module's own) keeps every verb, so its loss is still refused. Pure.
+func WithoutRetired(last []byte) ([]byte, []string) {
+	var m map[string]any
+	if json.Unmarshal(last, &m) != nil {
+		return last, nil
+	}
+	seats, ok := m["seats"].([]any)
+	if !ok {
+		return last, nil
+	}
+	var kept []any
+	var retired []string
+	for _, e := range seats {
+		served, _ := e.(map[string]any)
+		seat, _ := served["seat"].(string)
+		verb, _ := served["verb"].(string)
+		if retiredVerb(seat, verb) {
+			if r := seat + " " + verb; !slices.Contains(retired, r) {
+				retired = append(retired, r)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		kept = append(kept, e)
+	}
+	if len(retired) == 0 {
+		return last, nil
+	}
+	if len(kept) == 0 {
+		delete(m, "seats") // as an empty list is written: not at all
+	} else {
+		m["seats"] = kept
+	}
+	out, err := json.Marshal(m)
+	if err != nil {
+		return last, nil
+	}
+	sort.Strings(retired)
+	return out, retired
+}
+
+// retiredVerb says the seat catalogue defines seat with its verbs and no longer has verb among them. A seat the catalogue
+// defines without verbs (its holder declares them) retires none.
+func retiredVerb(seat, verb string) bool {
+	if seat == "" || verb == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+	s, ok := catalogue.SeatNamed(seat)
+	if !ok || len(s.Serves) == 0 {
+		return false
+	}
+	return !slices.ContainsFunc(s.Serves, func(v catalogue.Verb) bool { return v.Name == verb })
+}
+
 // sameMembership says two memberships say the same, whatever the order of their fields. Pure.
 func sameMembership(was, now []byte) bool {
 	var a, b any
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go
index 31d2520..d1b5d3e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ type Result struct {
 }
 
 // NothingTakesEffect is what every composition says it did on the bus beyond its own state and the memberships.
-const NothingTakesEffect = "memberships only (on the assignments stream, a first one or one that only adds to the last published; a loss stays a shadow difference); the user list, assertions and grants stay in shadow until take-over"
+const NothingTakesEffect = "memberships only (on the assignments stream, a first one or one that only adds to the last published or drops only a verb the seat catalogue retired; any other loss stays a shadow difference); the user list, assertions and grants stay in shadow until take-over"
 
 // Part is the grants part: it reads, calls and writes through these, and nothing else.
 type Part struct {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/tools.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/tools.go
index adee678..16505da 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/tools.go
@@ -62,8 +62,11 @@ func (p *Part) Grants(module string) (any, error) {
 // MembershipOf answers the tool membership: one module on one node as composed now, and as last published by the
 // part's process (its state memberships says what became of each at the last pass).
 func (p *Part) MembershipOf(node, module string) (any, error) {
+	if node == "" && module == "" {
+		return p.Held()
+	}
 	if node == "" || module == "" {
-		return nil, errors.New("membership names a node and a module")
+		return nil, errors.New("membership names a node and a module, or neither for every membership held back")
 	}
 	in := ReadInputs(p.Read, &p.cache)
 	recs, left := Records(in)
@@ -90,6 +93,32 @@ func (p *Part) MembershipOf(node, module string) (any, error) {
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+// Held answers every membership the part's process held back at its last pass, each `<node>.<module>` with why (what
+// publishing would lose), from the pass it keeps (issue 1945).
+func (p *Part) Held() (any, error) {
+	raw, rev, found, err := p.Store.Get(StateUserList, KeyPass)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the last pass cannot be read: %w", err)
+	}
+	if !found {
+		return map[string]any{"held": []any{}, "says": "no pass of the part's process has been kept yet"}, nil
+	}
+	var res Result
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &res); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the last pass cannot be read: %w", err)
+	}
+	type held struct {
+		Membership string `json:"membership"`
+		Why        string `json:"why"`
+	}
+	out := []held{}
+	for _, n := range res.NotPublished {
+		key, why, _ := strings.Cut(n, ": ")
+		out = append(out, held{Membership: key, Why: why})
+	}
+	return map[string]any{"held": out, "count": len(out), "pass": rev, "published": res.Published}, nil
+}
+
 // Pass composes and keeps the result as the last pass, for the tools to read.
 func (p *Part) Pass() Result {
 	res := p.Compose()