The Collaborative International Dictionary
Privity \Priv"i*ty\, n.; pl. Privities (-t[i^]z). [From Privy, a.: cf. F. privaut['e] extreme familiarity.]
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Privacy; secrecy; confidence.
--Chaucer.I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my purpose.
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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. A private matter or business; a secret.
--Chaucer.pl. The genitals; the privates.
(Law) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of privity English) 2 (context plurale tantum archaic English) The genitals.
Usage examples of "privities".
Preternaturally adult, privy to all their privities, he meditated daily on the raw torrid stuff of married life: the financial anxieties, the moments of sweet undifferentiated lovingness, the moments of guiltily suppressed hatred for the wearisome eternal spouse, the copulatory joys and anguishes, the comings together and the failings apart, the mysteries of failed orgasms and wilted erections, the intense and terrifyingly singleminded concentration on the growth and proper development of The Child.