secretly

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SE'CRETLY, adv. 1. Privately; privily; not openly; without the knowledge of others; as, to dispatch a messenger secretly. 2. Inwardly; not apparently or visibly; latently. Now secretly with inward grief she pin'd. Addison.
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