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
Bacon himself said of Studies, “Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring.”
From Talks to Freshman Girls by Brown, Helen Dawes
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
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
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
