undisprivacied
English
Etymology
From un- + dis- + privacy + -ed.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ŭn'-dĭs-prīʹ-və-sēd, IPA(key): /ˌʌn.dɪsˈpɹaɪ.və.sid/
- Rhymes: -aɪvəsid
Adjective
undisprivacied (not comparable)
- (nonce word, obsolete) Not deprived of privacy.
- 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:
- But he can find a fireside in the sun, / Play with his child, make love, and shriek his mind, / By throngs of strangers undisprivacied.