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ˈprivateness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being private, in various senses; privacy, the opposite of publicity; withdrawal from society, seclusion; † secrecy; † the pursuit of private ends; † the quality of being a private person or of living privately; † confidential intercourse, intimacy.
1585–7[see owedness]. a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 389 All churlish words, shrewd answers, crabbed lookes, All priuatenesse, selfe-seeking, inward spite. 1604Bacon Apol. Wks. 1879 I. 435 This difference in two points so main and material, bred in process of time a discontinuance of privateness. 1607–12― Ess., Great Place (Arb.) 280 Nay, retire men cannott when they would,..but are impatient of privatenes, even in age and sicknes. 1642Rogers Naaman 245 To attempt the defacing of them in an open manner, where our privatenesse cannot extend. 1667Anne Wyndham King's Concealm. (1681) 76 Into the highest chambers, where Privateness recompensed the meanness of the Accommodation. 1676G. Towerson Decalogue 441 Differenc'd..by the publickness or privateness of the things. 1922E. R Eddison Worm Ouroboros xv. 212 I'll walk apart, madam,..if thou wouldst have privateness to deliver thy mind. 1939‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. vi. 276 The privateness of all those lives! 1941― Lion & Unicorn 15 What it does link up with..is the addiction to hobbies and spare-time occupations, the privateness of English life. 1941E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner vi. 92 He let go her hands and stood..as if withdrawn for the moment into some inside privateness of deliberation. |