privateness

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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 delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

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.

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