privity
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. priveté, privitee et al., (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French priveté, from privé + -té.
Pronunciation
Noun
privity (countable and uncountable, plural privities)
- (obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.
- (obsolete) A private matter, a secret.
- (now rare, archaic) 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 […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- (archaic, in the plural) The genitals.
- (law) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
- 1870, Lysander Spooner, No Treason, Number 6, page 32:
- There is no privity, (as the lawyers say),—that is, no mutual recognition, consent and agreement—between those who take these oaths, and any other persons.
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