privy
adjective/ˈprɪvi/
/ˈprɪvi/
(formal)- privy to something allowed to know about something secret
- She was not privy to any information contained in the letters.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPrivy is used with these nouns:- seal
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘belonging to one's own private circle’): from Old French prive ‘private’ (also used as a noun meaning ‘private place’ and ‘familiar friend’), from Latin privatus ‘withdrawn from public life’, a use of the past participle of privare ‘bereave, deprive’, from privus ‘single, individual’.Want to learn more?
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