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"superlative"
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"text": "The king retreated to his privy chamber.",
"type": "example"
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"text": "the privy purse",
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"(now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own."
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"word": "geheim"
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"sense": "private, exclusive, particular",
"word": "magán"
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"word": "titkos"
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"ref": "1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 82",
"text": "Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.",
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"Secret, hidden, concealed."
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"text": "He was privy to the discussions.",
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"ref": "April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair",
"text": "William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them.\nadapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books",
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"With knowledge of; party to; let in on."
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"sense": "with knowledge of; party to; let in on",
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"ref": "1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.