Privy, Privily
Privy, Privily
privi, privi-li: These words are obsolete in modern English and are replaced by secret, secretly, rather than by the cognates private, privately. the Revised Version (British and American) usually has not altered the King James Version’s use of the word, but in Psa 11:2 has substituted in darkness and in Jdg 9:31 uses craftily, margin in Tormah (see TORMAH). In Eze 21:14, the King James Version entereth into their privy chambers, privy is a gloss, omitted in the Revised Version (British and American). To be privy to a thing (1Ki 2:44; Act 5:2) is simply to know it; in The Wisdom of Solomon 8:4, the Revised Version (British and American) has changed the phrase into be initiated into.