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In private   /ɪn prˈaɪvət/   Listen
noun
Private  n.  
1.
A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. (Obs.)
2.
Personal interest; particular business.(Obs.) "Nor must I be unmindful of my private."
3.
Privacy; retirement. (Archaic) "Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private."
4.
One not invested with a public office. (Archaic) "What have kings, that privates have not too?"
5.
(Mil.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
6.
pl. The private parts; the genitals.
In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.





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... only with the diplomatic world. You are to send us word whether the United States Government arsenals are working under a full complement of men; of the orders placed by the Navy Department for submarines, and the activities obtaining in private munition plants. Be certain and study the undercurrent of sentiment for or against us. Report as you ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... readily imparting it. You expect others to grasp ideas in the same way you do. This will make you unsympathetic and impatient as a teacher. You have no conception of the influence a teacher exerts upon children in public schools. You were educated in private schools and at home, I know. I attended the country public school, and to this day I can recall the benefits and misfortunes which resulted to me from association with different teachers. Children are keenly alive to the moods of teachers and ...
— A Woman of the World - Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... weave into any shape that you will, and, what is more, it is written in a noble beautiful English which you have probably never had time to master. I want you to do that now. Suppose, for instance, that in private life your hostess introduced you to Museum 88901 Wilkinson Arthur Jas.—let us say at a Jazz tea. And suppose you were to ask him what his business was, and he told you that he was an Actnr and Srvyr or a Pprhngr. Probably you would be surprised; ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 4, 1919. • Various
... was, I fancy, a pleasant break in the gathering monotony of his existence. As he got more accustomed to the sight of her in a crowd, however, and at the same time to her not very interesting company in private, when she took not the smallest pains to please him, he gradually lapsed into his former ways, and soon came to spend his evenings in company that made him forget his wife. He had loved her in a sort of a way, better left undefined, and had also, almost from the ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald
... In private life Mrs. Jordan was chiefly known as the mistress of the Duke of Clarence, to whom she bore ten children. She died at St. ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron


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