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"Come, let us go somewhere we can speak more privily."

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Soon, then, those who wish to communicate completely privily may be able to do so, whatever the world’s Eves might try throwing at them.

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The king gave orders for the most splendid and expensive funeral in living memory and then "privily departed to a solitary place to pass his sorrows".

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These are the names cryptographers give to two people who are trying to communicate privily, and to a third who is trying to intercept and decrypt their conversation.

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An ordinance was passed in 1307, directing the barbers to have the blood “privily carried into the Thames under pain of paying two shillings to the use of the Sheriffs.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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