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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

privately

/ˈpɹaɪvətli/

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What does privately mean?

adverb

  1. In a private manner.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈpɹaɪvətli/

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Finally they arrived in Lisbon and spent six days which, in a journal privately issued afterwards, they described as of “unique interest.”
Virginia WoolfThe Voyage OutProject Gutenberg ebook #144
I privately ascertained the hour at which Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite was expected, and then I escaped the music by leaving the house.
Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstoneProject Gutenberg ebook #155
More book examples (3)
Mr. Reed had often expressed himself privately as in favor of the Cause--but he had never made a public statement for us.
Anna Howard Shaw; Elizabeth Garver JordanThe Story of a PioneerProject Gutenberg ebook #354
Caesar replied that he did not want Egyptians to be his counselors, and soon after, privately sent for Cleopatra from her retirement.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
The advantage which I should take being that I am induced to publish from privately knowing that Wallace is in the field.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087