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Webster 1913 Edition
Privity
Priv′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Privities
(-tĭz)
. 1.
Privacy; secrecy; confidence.
Chaucer.
I will unto you, in
privity
, discover . . . my purpose. Spenser.
2.
Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.
All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the
privity
of the Prince of Orange. Swift.
3.
A private matter or business; a secret.
Chaucer.
4.
pl.
The genitals; the privates.
5.
(Law)
A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.
Webster 1828 Edition
Privity
PRIV'ITY
,Noun.
I will to you, in privity, discover the drift of my purpose. [Little used.]
1.
Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern, which is often supposed to imply consent or concurrence. All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the prince of Orange.
But it is usual to say, 'a thing is done with his privity and consent;' in which phrase, privity signifies merely private knowledge.
2.
Privities, in the plural, secret parts; the parts which modesty requires to be concealed.