The next section, on "a privee spece of Pryde" (s.
The poeple of the provinces ben harmed outher by privee ravynes, or by comune tributes or cariages,' where the Lat.
Yeven undre or privee seal at our citee of Coventre the x daie of Marche.
Yeven under our privee seal at Lychefeld the iij daye of Septembre the yeer of or regne xxxvth [1456].
Poor Voltaire wrote that Vie Privee in a state little inferior to the Frenzy of John Dennis,--how brought about we shall see by and by.
Whan I say the fortunes and the richesses of the poeple of the provinces ben harmed or 50 amenused, outher by privee ravynes or by comune tributes or cariages, as sory was I as they that suffreden the harm.
Thou bere away of Fortune a yifte, that is to seyn, swiche guerdoun, that she never yaf to privee man.
The sonne Phebus, that falleth at even in 25 the westrene wawes, retorneth ayein eftsones his carte, by privee path, ther-as it is wont aryse.
And I prey yow, lat me speke with your adversaries in privee place; / for they shul nat knowe that it be of your wil or your assent.
Beth war, for no man woot whom god wol smyte In no degree, ne in which maner wyse The worm of conscience may agryse 280 Of wikked lyf, though it so privee be, That no man woot ther-of but god and he.
Privee penaunce is thilke that men doon alday for privee sinnes, of whiche we shryve us prively and receyve privee penaunce.
A maner sergeant was this privee man, The which that feithful ofte he founden hadde 520 In thinges grete, and eek swich folk wel can Don execucioun on thinges badde.
Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Privee and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, 1115 And tak him for the grettest gentil man.
And more-over, the wrecched swollen membres that they shewe thurgh the degysinge, in departinge of hir hoses in whyt and reed, semeth that half hir shameful privee membres weren flayn.
And whan she of this bille hath taken hede, She rente it al to cloutes atte laste, And in the privee softely it caste.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
