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privacy

privacy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe.
  2. 2.Concealment of what is said or done. Shak.
  3. 3.A private matter; a secret. Fuller.
  4. 4.See Privity, 2. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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