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

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.

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.

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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