privacyn.

Brit.

/ˈprɪvəsi/,

/ˈprʌɪvəsi/, U.S.

/ˈpraɪvəsi/

Forms: 1500s– privacy, 1600s priuacie, 1600s priuacy, 1600s priuasie, 1600s privacie; Scottish pre-1700 preuicie, pre-1700 prevyce, pre-1700 prewac, pre-1700 privace, pre-1700 privicy, pre-1700 1700s– privacy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: private adj.¹, -acy suffix.

Etymology: < private adj.¹: see -acy suffix. Compare earlier privity n.Pronunciations with both ‘short’ and ‘long’ i in the first syllable have been current since at least the time of Walker (1802), who records both.

1. The state or condition of being alone, undisturbed, or free from public attention, as a matter of choice or right; seclusion; freedom from interference or intrusion.In quot. 1534 perhaps a scribal error for privity.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun]

privity?c1225

reclusionc1430

abstractionc1450

recess?1532

privacy1534

solitariousness1545

retirea1554

secess1570

privatenessa1586

retirednessa1586

retirement1603

secrecy1607

closeness1612

shadow1612

privatea1616

recluseness1648

abstractednessa1653

recluse1665

abscondence1694

seclusion1785

seclusiveness1822

retiracy1824

secludedness1835

retraite1843

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > freedom from public attention or intrusion

privacy1814

1534 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 141 That he resaiffit never the bell cros..nouder in prevyce nor part.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 184 Achil. Of this my priuacie, I haue strong reasons. Vlis. But gainst your priuacie, The reasons are more potent and heroycall.

1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 168 Vespasian during his Privacie, Led such a Life, as was Exemplary.

1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother i. i The thoughts of Princes dwell in sacred Privacy Unknown and venerable to the Vulgar.

1759 S. Johnson Idler 7 Apr. 105 Those that surround them in their domestic privacies.

1814 J. Campbell Rep. Cases Nisi Prius 3 81 Though the defendant might not object to a small window looking into his yard, a larger one might be very inconvenient to him, by disturbing his privacy, and enabling people to come through to trespass upon his property.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. ii. iv. 265 Your privacy will never be disturbed.

1864 Daily Tel. 13 Oct. 5/1 All your rusty-fusty British notions about comfort, civility, privacy, and the like.

1890 Warren & Brandeis Right to Privacy in Harvard Law Rev. 4 196 The question whether our law will recognize and protect the right to privacy..must soon come before our courts for consideration.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xliii. 62 Tess..entered into the privacy of her little white-washed chamber.

1901 G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion ii, in Three Plays for Puritans 252 Well, I am afraid I want a little privacy, and, if you will allow me to say so, a little civility.

1947 A. L. Rowse Tudor Cornwall xvi. 434 There was little privacy, for they lived on top of one another.

1965 D. Francis Odds Against v. 71 The one thing people want when they employ private investigators is privacy.

1967 J. Cleary Long Pursuit iii. 82 I learned..to respect her privacy. And I don't mean just when she went to the dike.

1978 I. Murdoch Sea 375 When Titus appeared I decided to go outside to avoid interruption and ensure privacy.

1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) ix. 328 A thermos of tea and a bucket of hot water soon appeared, and I had the luxury of an hour's privacy in the visitors' quarters, a spacious building at the far end of his compound.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Apr. 5/1 Browning was a ferocious preserver of his own and his family's privacy.

†2. The state of being privy to some act; = privity n. 6a. Obsolete.In quot. 1589 perhaps a scribal error for privity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > knowledge of secrets

privity1560

secrecy1577

privacy1589

self-consciousness1655

1589 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1842) II. 113 Thair is..conventiones of menn, in armes, in sindrie partis of our realme, without oure preuicie or allowance.

1688 P. Hume Let. 15 June in Marchmont Papers (1831) III. 82 Mr. Stewart's letters, written with the King's privacy to the pensionary Fagel.

1691 R. Kirk Secret Commonw. (1815) i. 6 If any Superterraneans be so subtile, as to practice Slights for procureing a Privacy to any of their Misteries.

1721 E. Young Revenge ii. i And now I come a mutual friend to both, Without his privacy, to let you know it.

1796 J. B. Fisher Hermitage I. 160 The person who had stole her away without her privacy, or consent.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 July 1/2 The amendment leaves the whole question as to the privacy to crime alleged against Mr. Parnell and his fellow members before the Commission.

a. Absence or avoidance of publicity or display; secrecy, concealment, discretion; protection from public knowledge or availability. Now rare, or merging with sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun]

privity?c1225

recess?1532

retiredness1601

privacy1602

retirement1603

purdah1865

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 20 Let her descend bully..my chambers are honorable, pah priuasie, fie.

1641 J. Wilkins (title) Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger. Shewing how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any Distance.

1700 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 129 I caused this Town to be searched but with some Privacy.

1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 116 I was married with the utmost privacy.

1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) V. 164 I have also to observe that privacy is inconsistent with every just notion of punishment.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 403 The emaciated corpse was laid, with all privacy, next to the corpse of Monmouth in the chapel of the Tower.

1884 Harper's Mag. June 73/2 The most..commendable feature of the charity is its privacy and unostentation.

1913 Times 16 Sept. 4/1 Robert Emmet's body was interred in the prison cemetery but was immediately removed and buried with great privacy in one of the Dublin city churchyards.

1923 Times 10 Aug. 8/4 The utmost privacy will be maintained in the home for several hours whilst the family are alone with their dead.

†b. The keeping of a secret; reticence. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > disposition to secrecy, secretiveness

secrecy1423

secretnessa1475

privacy1624

uncommunicativeness1751

snugness1778

secretiveness1815

cageyness1950

1624 P. Massinger Bond-man v. ii. sig. K2^v There's for your priuacy. Stay, vnbinde his hands.

1741 H. Purefoy Let. 21 Jan. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. ii. 29 I desire your Privacy on what I now write.

a. A private or personal matter; a secret. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret > hidden things, secrets

hidinga1325

privacya1625

Apocrypha1839

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private matter or business

counsel1377

secrec1386

secret1450

chamber counsela1616

privatea1616

particulara1617

privacya1625

confidence1748

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > quality of being personal > quality of being intimate or private

privatenessa1586

privacya1625

intimacy1648

intimity1889

privityc1300

private1549

privacya1625

personals1747

personalia1864

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun]

dighelnessc1000

dernship?c1225

derna1250

concealmenta1325

hidnessc1330

hiddennessc1380

privy1384

secrenessc1386

secre1390

stillnessa1400

secretnessa1475

hodelnessec1475

scuggery?a1500

hugger-mugger1529

closeness1562

secrecy1563

privatenessa1586

covertness1592

hugger-mug1654

privacy1702

conspiracy of silence1865

hush-hush1973

a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) iv. iv. sig. G^v Ile teach you to worme me good Lady sister, and peepe into my privacies to suspect me.

a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 236 Som other privacies comitted to my charge had ben so whispered owt.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης vii. 63 What concernes it us to hear a Husband divulge his Household privacies, extolling to others the vertues of his Wife?

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 46 A blab, and one that shall make a privacy as public as a proclamation.

1779 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Mar. in Thraliana (1942) I. 375 Though nobody sees the Thraliana but my self, I can not bear that our Father who seeth in Secret..should know my beastly privacies.

1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 7 ‘The confounded public’, as that large and respectable body is frequently styled in the privacies of official and monopolitical life.

1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson x. 126 Her conversation was made up of racy tattle about the privacies of the chief families of the town.

1941 W. Lewis Vulgar Streak i. iv. 26 A good straight tart was in an abstract category, disinfected of all hypocritical and horrid privacies.

1990 M. Angelou I shall not be Moved 11 Listening winds overhear my privacies spoken aloud.

†b. In plural. The genitals; = privity n. 4. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]

shapea1000

shameOE

i-cundeOE

memberc1300

privy memberc1325

kindc1330

privitiesc1375

harness1382

shameful parts1382

genitoriesa1387

partc1390

tailc1390

genitalsa1393

thingc1405

genitalc1450

privy parts1533

secret1535

loin?1541

genitures1548

filthy parts1553

shamefulness1561

ware1561

meatc1564

natural places1569

secret members1577

lady ware1592

natural parts1601

lady's ware1608

gear1611

private parts1623

groin1631

pudendums1634

natural1650

privacies1656

sex1664

secrecyc1675

nudities1677

affair1749

sexual parts1753

person1824

sex organ1847

privates1940

naughty bits1972

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxv Plucking up her cloaths, and shewing them her privacies.

†5. Intimacy; intimate relations. Also in plural. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy

privitya1250

nearnessc1485

familiarness1539

inwardness1578

greatnessa1586

privatenessa1586

entireness1599

habitude1612

gossiprya1614

strictnessc1614

mutualitiesa1616

particulara1616

intimity1617

privancy1622

privacy1638

intimacy1641

intimateness1642

familiarity1664

throng1768

closeness1851

close harmony1876

innerliness1888

insociation1893

dearness-

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 20 At that time..you gave me leave to boast of your friendship, I dare not now use the privacie of such tearmes.

1653 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 17 He..observed that there was great intimacy and privacy between that Col. and S^r John Henderson.

1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 42 Those that are our equals or have made us such by their privacy or intimate friendship.

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. Observ. 30 And even when that Affair is finished, we do not find the Poet dismisses her [sc. Venus] from the Chamber, whatever Privacies the Lovers had a mind to.

1749 S. Johnson Irene i. iv. 14 I come from empty Noise, and tasteless Pomp,..To prove the Sweets of Privacy and Friendship.

1786 ‘A. Pasquin’ Royal Academicians 22 The ladies' secrets ought only to be revealed to the hallow'd ears of privacy and friendship.

6. A private place; a place of concealment or retreat; a private apartment. Chiefly in plural. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun]

hidelsc975

hidela1300

bushc1330

hulkc1330

derna1340

tapissinga1340

coverta1375

hiding1382

loting-placea1398

cover14..

hiding placec1440

mewa1450

closetc1450

hole1483

cure1502

secret1530

shrouding place1571

ivy-bush1576

coney burrowa1586

hidlings1597

foxhole1606

shrouding corner1610

recess1611

subterfuge1616

latibule1623

latebra1626

blind1646

privacy1648

hide1649

retreat1697

rathole1770

hidey-hole1817

tod hole1846

hulster1880

hideout1885

cwtch1890

castle1898

lurk1906

stash1927

hideaway1930

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun]

wroa1300

recluse1474

reclusage1480

retreatc1500

retire1595

rendezvous1598

retirement1603

recess1611

shadea1616

Jericho1635

privacy1648

sequesterment1778

seclusion1791

retraite1814

backwater1820

hideaway1930

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia 362 Plentiful and opulent private estates, emblem'd by the pregnancy of the Fields; happy and easie privacies, expressed by the orderly sweetness of Gardens.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 307 Having rested at Boscobel two days, one in the Oak; the night in a privacy behind the Chimney in one of the Chambers.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. vii. 57 Do you think yourself at Liberty to invade the Privacies of Women of Condition, without the least Decency or Notice?

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xvi. 329 Let her see him in his most retired privacies.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xix. 339 When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of Windsor [etc.].

1878 S. Lanier Poems (1884) 14 Beautiful glooms..Wildwood privacies, closets of lone desire.

1987 C. Thubron Behind Wall i. 29 As I followed the Imperial Way, the palaces..succeeded each other in even more intense barriers and deeper privacies.

Compounds

General attributive, designating something which safeguards privacy, esp. in legal terms, as privacy equipment, privacy fence, privacy law, privacy policy, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > free from public attention or intrusion > affording privacy

privacy1933

1933 Post Office Electr. Engineers' Jrnl. 26 224/1 Overseas radio telephone services operated by the Post Office are provided with privacy equipment on all channels where the necessary deciphering equipment is provided at the distant end.

1949 Michigan Law Rev. 47 725 (note) This article..offers a good discussion of privacy law in general.

1954 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 24 Oct. a46/5 (advt.) Your own patio with privacy fence!

1969 Times 5 Dec. 4/6 (headline) Inquiry on privacy law urged.

1991 Do it Yourself Fall 88 (caption) Here's one way to add substance to an openwork lattice privacy fence.

2000 Brill's Content Aug. 41/1 DoubleClick's chief privacy officer..says the company's privacy policy was ‘in no way’ contradicted.

2002 Time 15 Apr. 46/2 The fbi and Louisiana's state highway patrol started an investigation that tiptoed around the state's strict privacy laws.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	privacy
释义	privacyn. Brit. /ˈprɪvəsi/, /ˈprʌɪvəsi/, U.S. /ˈpraɪvəsi/ Forms: 1500s– privacy, 1600s priuacie, 1600s priuacy, 1600s priuasie, 1600s privacie; Scottish pre-1700 preuicie, pre-1700 prevyce, pre-1700 prewac, pre-1700 privace, pre-1700 privicy, pre-1700 1700s– privacy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: private adj.¹, -acy suffix. Etymology: < private adj.¹: see -acy suffix. Compare earlier privity n.Pronunciations with both ‘short’ and ‘long’ i in the first syllable have been current since at least the time of Walker (1802), who records both. 1. The state or condition of being alone, undisturbed, or free from public attention, as a matter of choice or right; seclusion; freedom from interference or intrusion.In quot. 1534 perhaps a scribal error for privity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] privity?c1225 reclusionc1430 abstractionc1450 recess?1532 privacy1534 solitariousness1545 retirea1554 secess1570 privatenessa1586 retirednessa1586 retirement1603 secrecy1607 closeness1612 shadow1612 privatea1616 recluseness1648 abstractednessa1653 recluse1665 abscondence1694 seclusion1785 seclusiveness1822 retiracy1824 secludedness1835 retraite1843 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > freedom from public attention or intrusion privacy1814 1534 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 141 That he resaiffit never the bell cros..nouder in prevyce nor part. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 184 Achil. Of this my priuacie, I haue strong reasons. Vlis. But gainst your priuacie, The reasons are more potent and heroycall. View more context for this quotation 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 168 Vespasian during his Privacie, Led such a Life, as was Exemplary. 1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother i. i The thoughts of Princes dwell in sacred Privacy Unknown and venerable to the Vulgar. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 7 Apr. 105 Those that surround them in their domestic privacies. 1814 J. Campbell Rep. Cases Nisi Prius 3 81 Though the defendant might not object to a small window looking into his yard, a larger one might be very inconvenient to him, by disturbing his privacy, and enabling people to come through to trespass upon his property. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. ii. iv. 265 Your privacy will never be disturbed. 1864 Daily Tel. 13 Oct. 5/1 All your rusty-fusty British notions about comfort, civility, privacy, and the like. 1890 Warren & Brandeis Right to Privacy in Harvard Law Rev. 4 196 The question whether our law will recognize and protect the right to privacy..must soon come before our courts for consideration. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xliii. 62 Tess..entered into the privacy of her little white-washed chamber. 1901 G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion ii, in Three Plays for Puritans 252 Well, I am afraid I want a little privacy, and, if you will allow me to say so, a little civility. 1947 A. L. Rowse Tudor Cornwall xvi. 434 There was little privacy, for they lived on top of one another. 1965 D. Francis Odds Against v. 71 The one thing people want when they employ private investigators is privacy. 1967 J. Cleary Long Pursuit iii. 82 I learned..to respect her privacy. And I don't mean just when she went to the dike. 1978 I. Murdoch Sea 375 When Titus appeared I decided to go outside to avoid interruption and ensure privacy. 1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) ix. 328 A thermos of tea and a bucket of hot water soon appeared, and I had the luxury of an hour's privacy in the visitors' quarters, a spacious building at the far end of his compound. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Apr. 5/1 Browning was a ferocious preserver of his own and his family's privacy. †2. The state of being privy to some act; = privity n. 6a. Obsolete.In quot. 1589 perhaps a scribal error for privity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > knowledge of secrets privity1560 secrecy1577 privacy1589 self-consciousness1655 1589 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1842) II. 113 Thair is..conventiones of menn, in armes, in sindrie partis of our realme, without oure preuicie or allowance. 1688 P. Hume Let. 15 June in Marchmont Papers (1831) III. 82 Mr. Stewart's letters, written with the King's privacy to the pensionary Fagel. 1691 R. Kirk Secret Commonw. (1815) i. 6 If any Superterraneans be so subtile, as to practice Slights for procureing a Privacy to any of their Misteries. 1721 E. Young Revenge ii. i And now I come a mutual friend to both, Without his privacy, to let you know it. 1796 J. B. Fisher Hermitage I. 160 The person who had stole her away without her privacy, or consent. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 July 1/2 The amendment leaves the whole question as to the privacy to crime alleged against Mr. Parnell and his fellow members before the Commission. 3. a. Absence or avoidance of publicity or display; secrecy, concealment, discretion; protection from public knowledge or availability. Now rare, or merging with sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] privity?c1225 recess?1532 retiredness1601 privacy1602 retirement1603 purdah1865 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 20 Let her descend bully..my chambers are honorable, pah priuasie, fie. 1641 J. Wilkins (title) Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger. Shewing how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any Distance. 1700 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 129 I caused this Town to be searched but with some Privacy. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 116 I was married with the utmost privacy. 1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) V. 164 I have also to observe that privacy is inconsistent with every just notion of punishment. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 403 The emaciated corpse was laid, with all privacy, next to the corpse of Monmouth in the chapel of the Tower. 1884 Harper's Mag. June 73/2 The most..commendable feature of the charity is its privacy and unostentation. 1913 Times 16 Sept. 4/1 Robert Emmet's body was interred in the prison cemetery but was immediately removed and buried with great privacy in one of the Dublin city churchyards. 1923 Times 10 Aug. 8/4 The utmost privacy will be maintained in the home for several hours whilst the family are alone with their dead. †b. The keeping of a secret; reticence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > disposition to secrecy, secretiveness secrecy1423 secretnessa1475 privacy1624 uncommunicativeness1751 snugness1778 secretiveness1815 cageyness1950 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man v. ii. sig. K2^v There's for your priuacy. Stay, vnbinde his hands. 1741 H. Purefoy Let. 21 Jan. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. ii. 29 I desire your Privacy on what I now write. 4. a. A private or personal matter; a secret. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret > hidden things, secrets hidinga1325 privacya1625 Apocrypha1839 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private matter or business counsel1377 secrec1386 secret1450 chamber counsela1616 privatea1616 particulara1617 privacya1625 confidence1748 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > quality of being personal > quality of being intimate or private privatenessa1586 privacya1625 intimacy1648 intimity1889 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > quality of being personal > quality of being intimate or private > private or personal matters privityc1300 private1549 privacya1625 personals1747 personalia1864 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] dighelnessc1000 dernship?c1225 derna1250 concealmenta1325 hidnessc1330 hiddennessc1380 privy1384 secrenessc1386 secre1390 stillnessa1400 secretnessa1475 hodelnessec1475 scuggery?a1500 hugger-mugger1529 closeness1562 secrecy1563 privatenessa1586 covertness1592 hugger-mug1654 privacy1702 conspiracy of silence1865 hush-hush1973 a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) iv. iv. sig. G^v Ile teach you to worme me good Lady sister, and peepe into my privacies to suspect me. a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 236 Som other privacies comitted to my charge had ben so whispered owt. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης vii. 63 What concernes it us to hear a Husband divulge his Household privacies, extolling to others the vertues of his Wife? 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 46 A blab, and one that shall make a privacy as public as a proclamation. 1779 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Mar. in Thraliana (1942) I. 375 Though nobody sees the Thraliana but my self, I can not bear that our Father who seeth in Secret..should know my beastly privacies. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 7 ‘The confounded public’, as that large and respectable body is frequently styled in the privacies of official and monopolitical life. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson x. 126 Her conversation was made up of racy tattle about the privacies of the chief families of the town. 1941 W. Lewis Vulgar Streak i. iv. 26 A good straight tart was in an abstract category, disinfected of all hypocritical and horrid privacies. 1990 M. Angelou I shall not be Moved 11 Listening winds overhear my privacies spoken aloud. †b. In plural. The genitals; = privity n. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] shapea1000 shameOE i-cundeOE memberc1300 privy memberc1325 kindc1330 privitiesc1375 harness1382 shameful parts1382 genitoriesa1387 partc1390 tailc1390 genitalsa1393 thingc1405 genitalc1450 privy parts1533 secret1535 loin?1541 genitures1548 filthy parts1553 shamefulness1561 ware1561 meatc1564 natural places1569 secret members1577 lady ware1592 natural parts1601 lady's ware1608 gear1611 private parts1623 groin1631 pudendums1634 natural1650 privacies1656 sex1664 secrecyc1675 nudities1677 affair1749 sexual parts1753 person1824 sex organ1847 privates1940 naughty bits1972 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxv Plucking up her cloaths, and shewing them her privacies. †5. Intimacy; intimate relations. Also in plural. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy privitya1250 nearnessc1485 familiarness1539 inwardness1578 greatnessa1586 privatenessa1586 entireness1599 habitude1612 gossiprya1614 strictnessc1614 mutualitiesa1616 particulara1616 intimity1617 privancy1622 privacy1638 intimacy1641 intimateness1642 familiarity1664 throng1768 closeness1851 close harmony1876 innerliness1888 insociation1893 dearness- 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 20 At that time..you gave me leave to boast of your friendship, I dare not now use the privacie of such tearmes. 1653 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 17 He..observed that there was great intimacy and privacy between that Col. and S^r John Henderson. 1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 42 Those that are our equals or have made us such by their privacy or intimate friendship. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. Observ. 30 And even when that Affair is finished, we do not find the Poet dismisses her [sc. Venus] from the Chamber, whatever Privacies the Lovers had a mind to. 1749 S. Johnson Irene i. iv. 14 I come from empty Noise, and tasteless Pomp,..To prove the Sweets of Privacy and Friendship. 1786 ‘A. Pasquin’ Royal Academicians 22 The ladies' secrets ought only to be revealed to the hallow'd ears of privacy and friendship. 6. A private place; a place of concealment or retreat; a private apartment. Chiefly in plural. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] wroa1300 recluse1474 reclusage1480 retreatc1500 retire1595 rendezvous1598 retirement1603 recess1611 shadea1616 Jericho1635 privacy1648 sequesterment1778 seclusion1791 retraite1814 backwater1820 hideaway1930 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia 362 Plentiful and opulent private estates, emblem'd by the pregnancy of the Fields; happy and easie privacies, expressed by the orderly sweetness of Gardens. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 307 Having rested at Boscobel two days, one in the Oak; the night in a privacy behind the Chimney in one of the Chambers. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. vii. 57 Do you think yourself at Liberty to invade the Privacies of Women of Condition, without the least Decency or Notice? View more context for this quotation 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xvi. 329 Let her see him in his most retired privacies. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xix. 339 When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of Windsor [etc.]. 1878 S. Lanier Poems (1884) 14 Beautiful glooms..Wildwood privacies, closets of lone desire. 1987 C. Thubron Behind Wall i. 29 As I followed the Imperial Way, the palaces..succeeded each other in even more intense barriers and deeper privacies. Compounds General attributive, designating something which safeguards privacy, esp. in legal terms, as privacy equipment, privacy fence, privacy law, privacy policy, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > free from public attention or intrusion > affording privacy privacy1933 1933 Post Office Electr. Engineers' Jrnl. 26 224/1 Overseas radio telephone services operated by the Post Office are provided with privacy equipment on all channels where the necessary deciphering equipment is provided at the distant end. 1949 Michigan Law Rev. 47 725 (note) This article..offers a good discussion of privacy law in general. 1954 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 24 Oct. a46/5 (advt.) Your own patio with privacy fence! 1969 Times 5 Dec. 4/6 (headline) Inquiry on privacy law urged. 1991 Do it Yourself Fall 88 (caption) Here's one way to add substance to an openwork lattice privacy fence. 2000 Brill's Content Aug. 41/1 DoubleClick's chief privacy officer..says the company's privacy policy was ‘in no way’ contradicted. 2002 Time 15 Apr. 46/2 The fbi and Louisiana's state highway patrol started an investigation that tiptoed around the state's strict privacy laws. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1534
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