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Definition of Privatest
1. private [adj] - See also: private
Lexicographical Neighbors of Privatest
Literary usage of Privatest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"I would have had him deal with his privatest experience, as the poet does.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"The smallest fly will draw blood, and gossip is a weapon impossible to exclude
from the privatest, highest, selectest. Nature created a police of many ranks ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1890)
"To be buried in the most privatest manner & with the leaste charge & expense that
may bee only mourning to be given to wife, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1856)
"... Lord Wharton warns Sir John Bankes that he is intimate with many popular
leaders, ' and I do seriously profess, I dare not in my ' privatest thoughts ..."
5. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"Cabinet Ministers were dogged to their privatest haunts, for the leakages of
information were everywhere. Since Christianity no such force has arisen to ..."
6. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder
he finds this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true. ..."
7. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"... agreeably to both of our inclinations; but some friends of the Examiner heard
of our being in the neighbourhood, and the privatest of all public men (if ..."
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