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Webster 1913 Edition
Privacy
1.
The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
2.
A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
Her sacred
privacies
all open lie. Rowe.
3.
Concealment of what is said or done.
Shak.
4.
A private matter; a secret.
Fuller.
Webster 1828 Edition
Privacy
PRI'VACY
,Noun.
1.
A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie.
2.
Privity. [Not used.] [See Privity.]3.
Taciturnity. [Not used.]4.
Secrecy; concealment of what is said or done.Definition 2024
privacy
privacy
English
Noun
privacy (countable and uncountable, plural privacies)
- The state of being private; the state of not being seen by others.
- I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
Translations
state of being private
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