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Intimacies

Intimacy \In"ti*ma*cy\, n.; pl. Intimacies. [From Intimate.] The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

Syn: Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance.

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intimacies

n. (plural of intimacy English)

Usage examples of "intimacies".

It's almost as if the Corvi were discussing personal intimacies rather than sub-particular facts, but the result is a fantastic discipline of nucleonic forces.

Not that they could indulge in intimacies aboard even the larger KDL, but she would miss him acutely no matter how short a separation.

If the lady in question responded to such behavior on the part of the gentleman with any degree of warmth at all—that is, if she allowed further intimacies, for example, or encouraged him in any way…"

The hours she had spent reliving those intimacies in her imagination paled now as reality took its place.

She couldn’t hear about his intimacies with another woman, with any number of other women.

So she had lain beneath him in the night, shocked by the intimacies he'd insisted on, burning with the pleasure he'd given her, and she had become, irrevocably, Jake Sarratt's woman.

He can go further than the prescribed intimacies only with my permission.

I can take further intimacies at prescribed times in the days to come, but never forget: once you allow something, I can do it again at my choosing.

Images of its couplings appeared in her head now: intimacies that were perhaps only possible in the profligacy of sleep, unknitting both male and female and weaving them together again in new and ecstatic combinations.

Any further work on her part would be malice, and though she didn't doubt that there was much in him to despise—his talk of the revenge of the proles had been particularly unattractive—she'd shared too many intimacies with him, and been too comforted by them, to be cruel.

Quaisoir had sprouted such appendages, he recalled, after her intimacies with the women of the Bastion of the Banu.

This gave him many intimacies with the king, and made him an important man.