Both Uses of
privy
in
Persuasion
- And so much was said in this way, that Anne thought she could not do better than impart among them the general inclination to which she was privy, and persuaded them all to go to Lyme at once.†
Chpt 13 *
- I was privy to all the fors and againsts; I was the friend to whom he confided his hopes and plans; and though I did not know his wife previously, her inferior situation in society, indeed, rendered that impossible, yet I knew her all her life afterwards, or at least till within the last two years of her life, and can answer any question you may wish to put.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(privy as in: privy to her real identity) informed about something secret or not generally known