privyin a sentence
privy as in: privy to her real identity
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As a member of the board, she was privy to confidential information about the company’s financesprivy = informed about something secret or not generally known
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The spy was privy to the enemy’s plans and was able to warn of the planned attack.
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He called on a number of old family friends who still lived there, and from their answers to his queries, Chris pieced together the facts of his father's previous marriage and subsequent divorce, facts to which he hadn't been privy. (source)privy = informed
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A gander who had been privy to the plot had confessed his guilt to Squealer and immediately committed suicide by swallowing deadly nightshade berries. (source)privy = informed about something secret
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...in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. (source)privy = informed (about something secret)
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They were tiny thatch-walled privies on stilts.† (source)
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Sooty brick, two up, two down, privy out back.† (source)
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Come, let us go somewhere we can speak more privily.† (source)
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How can I ever reel him back to the world of rules and regulations, of protocol and privies?† (source)
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And when he came to the sea he sent home the footmen again, and took no more with him but ten thousand men on horseback, the most part men of arms, and so shipped and passed the sea into England, and landed at Dover; and through the wit of Merlin, he had the host northward, the priviest way that could be thought, unto the forest of Bedegraine, and there in a valley he lodged them secretly.† (source)priviest = most informed
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I know again why I favor it so much here, how I esteem the hush of this suburban foliage in every season, the surprising naturalness of its studied, human plan, how the privying hills and vales and dead-end lanes make one feel this indeed is the good and decent living, a cloister for those of us who are modest and unspecial.† (source)
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This meant that I was often privy to their real feelings about those "damn I-raynians."† (source)
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The king consulted with his wazir, and the minister advised: O king, wait another year and, if after that thou be minded to speak to him on the matter of marriage, speak not to him privily, but address him on a day of state, when all the emirs and wazirs are present with the whole of the army standing before thee.† (source)
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Building more barracks, more privies.† (source)
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Now turn we to the lady of the same castle, that thought much upon Beaumains, and then she called unto her Sir Gringamore her brother, and prayed him in all manner, as he loved her heartily, that he would ride after Sir Beaumains: And ever have ye wait upon him till ye may find him sleeping, for I am sure in his heaviness he will alight down in some place, and lie him down to sleep; and therefore have ye your wait upon him, and in the priviest manner ye can, take his dwarf, and go ye your way with him as fast as ever ye may or Sir Beaumains awake.† (source)
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It could have been a tale from Gogol with Shalamov playing the part of a well-fed privy councillor impressed by his own rank.† (source)
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rare meaning
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The jail was Maycomb's only conversation piece: its detractors said it looked like a Victorian privy;
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privy = outdoor toilet
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