privacy
noun
the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion.
privacies
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pluralof privacy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By presenting himself as a rudimentary human being, Whitman maintained his most intimate privacies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2020
Peculiar boundaries or openings tend to perplex us most: They conjure up privacies or intimacies with which we can no longer identify.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2019
In a 2014 Supreme Court decision that made it harder for police to search cellphones without a warrant, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that the devices contained “the privacies of life.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2017
Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts stated about mobile phones: “With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans ‘the privacies of life.’
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2015
But," said she, "as we are forced to hear and say so much that is painful, let us in our privacies indulge ourselves with anticipating brighter scenes.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
