private
adjective
belonging to some particular person.
privateness
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a word derived from
private.
Example Sentences
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An “awkward, but beautiful addition to my work”, he called it: a collaborative antidote to “the privateness and loneliness of painting”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2016
Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Their chief use for delight is in privateness; for ornament, in discourse; and for ability in the judgment and disposition of business.
From Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John L. Hülshof
Bacon himself said of Studies, “Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring.”
From Talks to Freshman Girls by Helen Dawes Brown
The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
