privily

adv

1. (archaic)Secretly, in secret; in a private manner; privately.

   “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.”