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- adverb Obsolete spelling of
privily .
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Examples
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And knocke pryuely your brestes & that yf ye may with fallynge of teeres/after your meles reherce your lectures or some notabilytees of sermons or other holy thynges [that] ye haue herde or seen afore.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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¶ where he me founde and then pryuely Original has
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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In that booke he radde pryuely in the under tydes, therefor unnethe the clerkes of his chirche would suffre him be buryed under heuene without hooly chirche, "_Polychronicon: Caxton's edit. _, sign.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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