Privity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpɹɪvɪti/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Privity is a noun meaning (now rare, archaic) Privacy, secrecy.
Meaning
(now rare, archaic) Privacy, secrecy.
More Meanings
- The fact of being privy to something; knowledge, compliance.
- (law) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, e.g. contract, estate, etc.
- (obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.
- (obsolete) A private matter, a secret.
- (archaic, in the plural) The genitals.
Example Sentences
Him oft and oft I askt in priuitie, / Of what loines and what lignage I did spring[…].
Having ended the delights of nature, they were wont to wipe their privities [translating catze] with perfumed wooll.
But this acknowledgement was made without the privity of his wife, whose vicious aversion he was obliged, in appearance, to adopt.
But yet there is a place that men clepe the school of God, where he was wont to teach his disciples, and told them the privities of heaven.
Word Forms
- privities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include acquiescence, connivance, collusion, complicity, fault, concert.
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