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noun
Privity  n.  (pl. privities)  
1.
Privacy; secrecy; confidence. "I will unto you, in privity, discover... my purpose."
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."
3.
A private matter or business; a secret.
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Privity" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lord Broughton, who, when Sir John Cam Hobhouse, was President of the Board of Control from 1835 to 1841, declared before a House of Commons Committee, in 1851, 'The Afghan war was done by myself; entirely without the privity of the Board of Directors.' The meaning of that declaration, of course, was that it was the British Government of the day which was responsible, acting through its member charged with the control of Indian affairs; and further, ...
— The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 • Archibald Forbes



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