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Privately   /prˈaɪvətli/   Listen
Privately

adverb
1.
Kept private or confined to those intimately concerned.  Synonyms: in camera, in private.  "Privately, she thought differently" , "Some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat" , "He was questioned in private"
2.
By a private person or interest.



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"Privately" Quotes from Famous Books



... privately in approval. She had been afraid that he might wish to flee. And who could blame him? During this week of trial, however, Nelson Haley had recovered his self-control, and had deliberately made up his mind ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... for these compliments seemed to be given with malicious intent. I suspected that the ballet-girl had been discovered beneath the countess, and I felt myself dishonoured. I succeeded in speaking privately to the young wanton for a moment, and begged her to dance like a young lady, and not like a chorus girl; but she was proud of her success, and dared to tell me that a young lady might know how to dance as well as a professional dancer, and that ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... that such abominable mercenaries should cause a mighty deal of mischief in Minda; privately going about, inciting peaceable folks to enmities with their neighbors; and with marvelous alacrity, proposing themselves as the very sorcerers to rid them of the annoyances suggested ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville
... said Percival, privately thinking that suicide would be preferable to an existence in which such interviews with his landlady should be of frequent occurrence. Pity, irritation, disgust, pride and humiliation made up a state of feeling which was overshadowed by a horrible fear that Mrs. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
... column, the wedding took place yesterday, privately, of Lord Tulliwuddle, kinsman and heir of the late peer of that name, so well known in London and Scottish society, and Miss Constance Herringay, better known as 'Connie Fitz Aubyn,' of the Gaiety Theatre. It is understood that the young couple have ...
— Count Bunker • J. Storer Clouston


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