Meaning of PRIVY in English

Use in sentences of PRIVY

Meaning of PRIVY in English

• Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
• Secret; clandestine.
• Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
• Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
• A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
• A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

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