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
I congratulate you, my dear daughter, on your approaching nuptials with the Privy Counsellor.
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Augustus William Iffland
He has had some learning indeed; but then all that solid by-work, such as is requisite for a Privy Counsellor, of that he never was possessed; and so sit down to work.
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Augustus William Iffland
When is Benniger to bring you the present for the Privy Counsellor?
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Augustus William Iffland
Her Steward is M. de Wederkopf, who was formerly Privy Counsellor to the King of Denmark, and his Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of France.
