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intimity|ɪnˈtɪmɪtɪ|
[f. L. intim-us inmost, deepest, intimate + -ity: cf. F. intimité (1735 in Hatz.-Darm.), whence app. the current sense 2.]
†1. Close friendship or acquaintance, intimacy.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely Ep. Ded. 3 The Historian, that alleadges friendship..and some intimitie with him.
2. Intimate quality or nature; inwardness; the quality of being very private; privacy.
1889Sat. Rev. 30 Nov. 620/1 We owe her..one of the very best pictures of a decorous kind of a Court ‘in intimity’ that exists. 1897Ibid. 16 Oct. 423 When the veil of intimity was lifted by Mrs. Orr and others, it was found that Browning had an excellent reason for his discretion. 1896Mrs. H. Ward Sir G. Tressady (1898) 402 It gave him a delicious passionate sense of intimity. |