privy

Converse of object

• have: It would appear that Trench B now has TWO privies.
• cleanse: The landlords were bound to repair, pave, and cleanse the privies.

Adjective modifier

• outside: Some houses had their own outside privies with slate slabs for roofing.
• outdoor: Anyone who has experienced outdoor privies must consider indoor sanitation to be the blessing of the century.

Modifies a noun

• midden: There are only three open dry privy middens for the convenience of the whole twenty-eight families.
• counselor: Made a privy counselor in 1911 he was created Baron Downham.
• councilor: Mary rewarded his loyalty by making him a privy councilor.
• seal: Its privy seal was removed during the Civil War.
• council: He was a member of the privy council of Henry VII.
• chamber: Yonder's one master Butler of the privy chamber, is sent unto you from the King.

Modifying Another Word

• not: We were not privy to the goings on there, we were not there.
• n't: Effect of prwora agencies are n't privy to for reasons other.
• also: They were also privy to the family's intimate secrets.
• never: We, like Marie, are never privy to what happened to her husband.
• even: Unfortunately, we weren't even privy to views of Rhino Point, let alone Mount Meru, as the cloud was low.

Used with adjective complement

• become: It's like gaining membership to a private clique which you never wished to become privy to.
• make: Forced into the intimacy of the characters, the audience are made privy to the story behind their decaying relationship.
• feel: There is no sense of privilege about being here: instead, the places to which I feel privy have shrunk to out-of-the-way recesses.

Preposition: in

• garden: The earth closet displayed came from a privy in the garden of Elizabeth's cottage near North Leigh.

Preposition: for

• house: The new houses, here, as a rule, have one privy for two houses.