Crossword-Solution: PRIVY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Privy | a. | Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. |
| Privy | a. | Secret; clandestine. |
| Privy | a. | Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. |
| Privy | a. | Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. |
| Privy | n. | 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. |
| Privy | n. | A necessary house or place; a backhouse. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIVY (5)
Scott also had to agree to keep his Federal friends at a distance and announce if they were privy to the conversations.
That Providence, however, had put it into the heart of a person who was beyond fear and beyond reproach, to ferret out the nature of the prisoner’s schemes, and, struck with horror, to disclose them to his Majesty’s Chief Secretary of State and most honourable Privy Council.
And then the king was angry, 1:21 And took the priests with their wives and children, who shewed him the privy doors, where they came in, and consumed such things as were upon the table.
This is additional information that the document examiners brought with them." "Material that I was not privy to and had no opportunity to question the document examiners on! I consider this most unfair." Anuse smirked.
What do these things mean? If Miss Verinder is not privy to the suppression of the Diamond, what do these things mean?” This time he looked my way.
Quotes with PRIVY (3)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator — that's beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer. Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick …
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).