particular vs private

particular

adj
  • Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing. 

  • Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious. 

  • Containing a part only; limited. 

  • Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions). 

  • Holding a particular estate. 

  • Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise. 

  • Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject. 

  • Specific; discrete; concrete. 

noun
  • A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. 

  • A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) 

private

adj
  • Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group. 

  • Not publicly known; not open; secret. 

  • Not shared with another patient. 

  • Not accessible by the public. 

  • Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded. 

  • Secretive; reserved. 

  • Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses. 

  • Not traded by the public. 

  • Not in governmental office or employment. 

verb
  • To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently). 

noun
  • A private lesson. 

  • The genitals. 

  • A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. 

  • A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care. 

How often have the words particular and private occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )