[f. prec. + -ITY.] Confidential quality; state of being confidential.

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1834.  W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., II. 566. The employment of an amanuensis would abolish all real confidentiality in our correspondence.

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1881.  W. C. Russell, Ocean Free Lance, II. 110. [Her] soft eyes and winning confidentiality of manner.

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  b.  = Confidential relation: see prec. 2.

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