Both Uses of
privy
in
Mansfield Park
- She was privy, one evening, to the hopes of her aunt Norris on the subject, as well as to her feelings, and the feelings of Mrs. Rushworth, on a point of some similarity, and could not help wondering as she listened; and glad would she have been not to be obliged to listen, for it was while all the other young people were dancing, and she sitting, most unwillingly, among the chaperons at the fire, longing for the re-entrance of her elder cousin, on whom all her own hopes of a partner…†
Chpt 12
- Had he been privy to her conversation with his son, he would not have wished her to belong to him, though her twenty thousand pounds had been forty.†
Chpt 47 *
Definition:
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(privy as in: privy to her real identity) informed about something secret or not generally known