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privily | privity |

As an adverb privily

is in a private manner; privately.

As a noun privity is

(obsolete) a divine mystery; something known only to god, or revealed only in holy scriptures.

privily

English

Alternative forms

* prively (obsolete) * priuely (obsolete) * pryvely (obsolete) * pryuely (obsolete)

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a private manner; privately.
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 398:
  • *:‘I have tidings I know you will be anxious to hear, sweet sister, but they are best spoken of privily .’

    • privity

    English

    Noun

    (privities)
  • (obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.
  • (obsolete) A private matter, a secret.
  • Privacy, secrecy.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • Him oft and oft I askt in priuitie , / Of what loines and what lignage I did spring.
  • (archaic, in the plural) The genitals.
  • *, I.49:
    • Having ended the delights of nature, they were wont to wipe their privities with perfumed wooll.
  • (legal) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
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