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  • adjective superlative form of private: most private.

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Examples

  • But at the same time, Google is first and foremost, an ad network, so how do they balance the 'best' algorithmic answer with sponsor willing to pay the most, to talk to you once you've bared your privatest data parts to the world?

    Steve Rosenbaum: SXSW: The Heart of the Realtime Revolution Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • But at the same time, Google is first and foremost, an ad network, so how do they balance the 'best' algorithmic answer with sponsor willing to pay the most, to talk to you once you've bared your privatest data parts to the world?

    Steve Rosenbaum: SXSW: The Heart of the Realtime Revolution Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • VP: Like a woman, I confess most of my best exchanges are privatest.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • VP: Like a woman, I confess most of my best exchanges are privatest.

    Vanessa Place, Round 2 Lemon Hound 2008

  • He had no assistance from the magistrates worth mentioning, but called witness after witness in the privatest manner, before himself in his own house, and for six weeks time, from morning to evening, went on in the enquiry without taking the least diversion, or turning his thoughts to any other business.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; — that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.

    The American Scholar 2006

  • The wicked wretches I have escaped from, will not, I hope, come to church to look for me; especially at so early prayers; and I have fixed upon the privatest pew in the latter church to hide myself in; and perhaps I may lay out a little matter in an ordinary gown, by way of disguise; my face half hid by my mob. —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I would have had him deal with this privatest experience, as the poet does.

    Fear and Courage - Pt 2. 2006

  • King's privatest council, and sitting in high and great authority, tread upon me, poor Reynard, and work my disgrace, notwithstanding, for your Majesty's sake, I have lost my natural father.

    The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition Unknown

  • I would have had him deal with his privatest experience, as the poet does.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

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