privily
/ˈpɹɪvɪli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Gaveston: Why do you not commit him to the Tower? King Edward: I dare not, for the people love him well. Gaveston: Why, then we'll have him privily made away."
- "Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk, / And tell him privily of our intent."
- "[…] to cause that foaming in their mouthes, which is fearefull to behold by the standers by, they have this trick, privily to convey a peece of white soape into one corner of their Jawes, which causeth that froth to come boyling forth."
- "Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily."
- "Item, because in the convents of women, men come not but underhand, privily, and by stealth; it was therefore enacted, that in this house there shall be no women in case there be not men, nor men in case there be not women."
- "That if any person shall be convicted of feloniously stealing any of the before mentioned articles from the person of another, whether privily and without his knowledge, or openly and avowedly before his face, he shall be deemed guilty of an higher species of larceny […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈpɹɪvɪli/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more privily (comparative)
most privily (superlative)
prively (alternative)
priuely (alternative)
pryvely (alternative)
pryuely (alternative)