Privy vs Withdraught - What's the difference?
privy | withdraught |
Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
Secret, hidden, concealed.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
(legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
(label) Withdrawal.
(label) A private chamber, a room or other area one can withdraw to.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XIX:
*:the Quene wolde nat suffir her wounded knyghtes to be fro her, but that they were layde in wythdraughtes by hur chambir, uppon beddis and paylattes, that she myght herselff se unto them that they wanted nothynge.
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*:Then when season was, they went unto their chambers, but in no wise the queen would not suffer the wounded knights to be from her, but that they were laid within draughts by her chamber, upon beds and pillows, that she herself might see to them, that they wanted nothing.
(label) A privy or sewer.
As nouns the difference between privy and withdraught
is that privy is an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house while withdraught is withdrawal.As an adjective privy
is private, exclusive; not public; one's own.privy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The king retreated to his privy chamber.
- the privy purse
- Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
- He was privy to the discussions.
Noun
(privies)- (Burrill)
- (Wharton)