Private vs Inviolable - What's the difference?
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Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not in governmental office or employment.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not publicly known; not open; secret.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
Intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization.
Not accessible by the public.
Not traded by the public.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Secretive; reserved.
(US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
The lowest rank of the army.
A soldier of the rank of private.
(in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
(obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
(obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
* Shakespeare
A private lesson.
Not violable; not to be infringed.
Not susceptible of violence, or of being profaned, corrupted, or dishonoured.
Incapable of being injured or invaded.
Private is a related term of inviolable.
As adjectives the difference between private and inviolable
is that private is belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group while inviolable is not violable; not to be infringed.As a noun private
is the lowest rank of the army.private
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Adjective
(en adjective)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private -equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Synonyms
* (done in the view of others ): secluded * (intended only for one's own use ): personal * (not accessible by the public ):Antonyms
* publicNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Nor must I be unmindful of my private .
- Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private .
- What have kings, that privates have not too?
- If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates .
