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[ noun ] the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
Synonyms Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates , I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing_for_effect , to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom , later , in the privacy of our bunks , we would think in_terms_of the most elaborate romance . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Only paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences , where one man 's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the condition of being concealed or hidden
Synonyms Used in print (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)He had picked_out this pathless trail , instead of the common one , in a moment of romantic fancy , to give them privacy on their honeymoon . Related terms |
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