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privy

1 adjective
     
priv‧y1
1

be privy to something

sharing in the knowledge of facts that are secret:
Colby was privy to the committee's decisions.
2 old use secret and private
—privily adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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