Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Privacy (Page: 1139)

Pri"va*cy (?), n.; pl. Privacies (#). [See Private.]

1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.

Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe.

3. Concealment of what is said or done. Shak.

4. A private matter; a secret. Fuller.

5. See Privity, 2. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.