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Privity - What does it mean?

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privity

English

Noun

(privities)
  • (obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.
  • (obsolete) A private matter, a secret.
  • Privacy, secrecy.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • Him oft and oft I askt in priuitie , / Of what loines and what lignage I did spring.
  • (archaic, in the plural) The genitals.
  • *, I.49:
    • Having ended the delights of nature, they were wont to wipe their privities with perfumed wooll.
  • (legal) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
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