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privily

[ UK /pɹˈɪvili/ ]
ADVERB
  1. confidentially or in secret
    told her friend privily that she was planning to be married

How To Use privily In A Sentence

  • We did see part of the battle of the Yalu from the outer walls of Wiju, "he said, but added," From then on the Japanese treatment of the correspondents with the first army grew stricter -- When I left Yokohama homeward bound, all the other correspondents patiently playing the game according to Japanese etiquette, were still publicly dining and privily blaspheming Tokyo. JACK LONDON'S WAR
  • And then he went privily all by night, till he came to his folk that were full glad of his coming, and made great thankings to God The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • privily shall bring in damnable heresies." before ... ordained -- Greek, "forewritten," namely, in Peter's prophecy Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Beyond doubt, the boy had broken the taboos, and privily he told him so, until Lamai trembled and wept and squirmed abjectly at his feet, for the penalty was death. CHAPTER XIV
  • Compare 2Pe 2: 1, "There shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • told her friend privily that she was planning to be married
  • As Paulson, the head plowman, complained privily to Dawson, the crop manager: CHAPTER IV
  • Trojan, Paris, was privily stolen away out of their country, was greater or more pitiful than this ruthful and deplorable collugency of theirs? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • So to the Committee of Safety Charles went, privily to drop a flea in its ear concerning Tarwater's grubless, moneyless, and aged condition. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
  • Nur al-Din repented him of that he had done, whenas repentance profited him naught, and his mother sait to him, O my son, this penitence will not profit thee; nor will aught avail thee but that thou arise forthwith and seek safety in flight: go forth the house privily and take refuge with one of thy friends and there what The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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