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undisprivacied en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • ŭn'-dĭs-prīʹ-və-sēd
  • /ˌʌn.dɪsˈpɹaɪ.və.sid/

Etymology

From un- + dis- + privacy + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (nonce-word, not-comparable, obsolete) Not deprived of privacy.
    • But he can find a fireside in the sun, / Play with his child, make love, and shriek his mind, / By throngs of strangers undisprivacied. 1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXV, number CXLVII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5: