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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pri'va-cy, n.

noun

(Synop., § 130), n. [From private.]

  1. A state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; secrecy.
  2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.

Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe.

  1. Privity. [Obs.] See PRIVITY. Arbuthnot.
  2. Taciturnity. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
  3. Concealment of what is said or done; secrecy.