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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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... electorate, and especially the Liberal electorate, which is responsible for the present state of things. It has no political education. It knows well enough that 2 and 2 won't make 5 in a ledger, and that sentimental stealing in private life is not to be tolerated; but it has not been taught the great lesson in history that there are like verities in national life, and hence it easily falls a prey to any clever and copious fallacy-monger who appeals to ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
... together. A time of adversity compels us to bow our heads; but let us lift our hearts to God, and pray for better times. He will instill courage and patience into the souls of noble and true patriots, and teach them not to despair. Hardenberg, I believe in you, and so does Prussia. Work for the cause in private life, as you are unable to do so in public—prepare for the new era. This is my farewell—this the expression of my gratitude for your fidelity. May God protect you, that you may be able again to be useful to our country! Whenever I pray for Prussia, I shall remember you! Farewell!" She ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... themselves, and she did not hide her enjoyment under a pretence of unobservant good-nature. She observed with malice. It is tolerably certain that Miss Mitford was wrong in accepting the description of her in private life as "perpendicular, precise, taciturn, a poker of whom every one is afraid." Miss Austen, one is sure, was a lady of good-humour, as well as a novelist of good-humour; but the good-humour had a flavour. It was the good-humour ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... the publicity of their situation. There, they stand exhibited to public view, every turn of their conduct, private and public, becomes a subject of general scrutiny. Ten thousand eyes are rivetted upon them, for one that is fixed upon individuals in private life. And though it often happens that some of them are suspected whose lives are perfectly pure, none who have deviated from the paths of virtue can long keep their fall concealed. Can the same be said of the other ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Volume I, Number 1 • Stephen Cullen Carpenter
... that the legislative program of labor would deal primarily with the regulation of labor conditions in private employment analogous to the legislative program of the British trade unions until recent years. Should labor in America follow the newer program of labor in Britain and demand the taking over of industries by government with compensation, it is not certain that the courts ...
— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman


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