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2. precedence, precedency, seniority, rank, tenure; preference, urgency, top priority, prerogative; authority, weight, moment, influence, consequence, eminence; primacy, preeminence, superiority, supremacy, paramountcy, importance, consequentiality, weightiness. priory, n. monastery, religious house, abbey, cloister, cenoby, friary; convent, nunnery; seminary, prison, n. penitentiary, Sl. pen, house of detention, penal institution, state prison, state or federal penitentiary, Sl. big house, Sl. slammer, Sl. stir, Brit. Sl. college, Brit. Sl. porridge; jail, jailhouse, station house, lockup, Scot. tolbooth, Inf. clink, U.S. Inf. calaboose, Brit. Inf. bridewell; guardhouse, guardroom, U.S. brig; dungeon, black hole, hold, oubliette; All Sl. can, cooler, coop, jug, hoosegow, boobyhatch, pokey, Brit. choky, Brit. quod, prisoner, n. jailbird, convict, Sl. con, trusty or trustee, Inf. lifer, Sl. lag, Sl. lagger; parolee, Brit, (formerly) ticket-of-leave man; recidivist, repeat offender, Inf. chronic crook, pristine, adj. 1. primitive, primordial, primigenial; primary, prime, early, earliest, initial, first; incipient, basic, fundamental, elementary, rudimentary, inchoate, simple, uncomplicated; original, autochthonal, autochthonous, aboriginal.
2. natural, plain, pure, clean, unsullied; untarnished, spotless, stainless, unmarred, unblemished, unspoiled, unpolluted; chaste, virginal, virgin, maidenly, maidenish, Archaic, honest, untouched; uncorrupted, undefiled, unfallen, moral, virtuous, privacy, n. 1. privateness, intimacy, intimateness, seclusion, solitude, retreat, retirement; isolation, alone-ness, loneness, solitariness, loneliness, remoteness, obscureness, obscurity; aloofness, apartness, separateness, separation; withdrawal, withdrawment, hermit-ry, hermitship, reclusion, unsociability, unsociableness; independence, independency, self-sufficiency.
2. secrecy, secretness, secretiveness, mysteriousness; reticence, silence, silentness, reservedness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness; hugger-mugger, concealment, clandestineness, hiddenness, concealedness, confidentiality, confidentialness; covertness, furtiveness, sneakiness, surreptitiousness, slyness, stealthiness, underhandedness, private, adj. 1. individual, personal, particular, singular, peculiar, special, especial.
2. confidential, strictly confidential, privy, unofficial, off-the-record, not to be quoted, not to be disclosed, not to be made public, Inf. hush-hush, highly secret.
3. nonpolitical, nonofficial, nonpublic.
4. secret, secretive, mysterious, hidden, concealed; underground, clandestine, covert, furtive, surreptitious, sly, stealthy, sneaky, sneaking, underhand, underhanded.
5. not open to the public, off-limits, unaccessible, inaccessible, closed; exclusive, restrictive, restricted, limited.
6. alone, solitary, Fr. seul, by oneself; secluded, seclusive, withdrawn, retired, sequestered, backwater, isolated; reclusive, hermitic, hermitical, hermitish, hermitlike, shut off, apart; removed, remote, out-of-the-way, off the beaten path or track; deserted, lonesome, lonely, forsaken, desolate.
7. intimate, bosom, most personal.
-n. 8. private soldier, enlisted man, Mil. regular, noncommissioned officer, Inf. noncom, private first class; G.I., G.I. Joe, Tommy Atkins, Tommy; infantryman, Inf. doughboy, foot soldier, Rare, footman,
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