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noun

Privacy n. (pl. privacies)

The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. "Her sacred privacies all open lie."

Concealment of what is said or done.

A private matter; a secret.

See Privity, 2. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Privacy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Privacy" Quotes from Famous Books

... and as a result of this precaution on his part her motherly queries seemed to be ignored, and she several times shed tears in the belief that Rosy had grown so patrician that she was capable of snubbing her mother in her resentment at feeling her privacy intruded upon and an ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... persons, on the most private business, to appoint a meeting in what they supposed to be a place of the utmost solitude, and to find it thronged with people." The idea implied is, that this would in fact be the completest privacy they could have wished. "The situation of a man in the midst of a crowd, yet as completely in the power of another, life and all, as if they two were in the deepest solitude." This contradiction between the ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... Tonno said, the tone of his voice suddenly changing. "We can discuss the matter indoors in the privacy of my study." And he conducted Max to a room in the rear of ...

— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell

... turn away, withdrawing my privacy from his fatuous, objectless attempts to test what sort of stuff it was made of, when he laid down his pipe in an extremely significant manner, you know, as if a critical moment had come, and leaned sideways over ...

— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad

... followed Danglars sat down on a bench. The clerk continued to write for the next five minutes; the man preserved profound silence, and remained perfectly motionless. Then the pen of the clerk ceased to move over the paper; he raised his head, and appearing to be perfectly sure of privacy,—"Ah, ha," he ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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