privy council
noun
a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
Privy Counsellor
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a word derived from
Privy Council.
Example Sentences
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When he became deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in 2015, "no-one had informed me that I would be made a Privy Counsellor", Mr Halfon said.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2022
To please you, I attached myself to the Privy Counsellor; but his vanity is such that I cannot hold out with him any longer.
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William
And then it is all over; for I must tell you, he will not fill the office of a Privy Counsellor any longer.
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William
With him to the Council Chamber, where he was sworne; and the charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor is 56l.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron
When is Benniger to bring you the present for the Privy Counsellor?
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William
