privateness
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 pastimes is in privateness and retiring; for ornaments, in discourse; and for ability, in judgment....
From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Parsons, Frank
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 Bacon, Francis
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 Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.
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 Hülshof, John L.