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adv. - Confidentially or in secret.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Told her friend privily that she was planning to be married
  • Damnable heresies are commonly brought in privily, under the cloak and colour of truth.
  • (In Ga 2: 4 the same word is rendered, "came in privily.")
  • Then Gawaine called privily in council all his brethren, and to them said thus: Fair brethren, here may ye see, whom that we hate
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