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Privy Seal

The seal which the sovereign uses in proof of assent to a document. In matters of minor importance it is sufficient to pass the privy seal, but instruments of greater moment must have the great seal also.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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