privity
private or secret knowledge.
participation in the knowledge of something private or secret, especially as implying concurrence or consent.
Law. the relation between privies.
Obsolete. privacy.
Origin of privity
1Other words from privity
- non·priv·i·ty, noun, plural non·priv·i·ties.
Words Nearby privity
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How to use privity in a sentence
But Judith had not meddled with the arrangement, and every necessary disposition was made without her privity or advice.
The Deerslayer | James Fenimore CooperThey stopped at a door in a poor court which they had somehow reached without Mavering's privity.
April Hopes | William Dean HowellsAll this whole matter, even to my writing my Letter to Kid, was transacted with the privity and advice of the Councill.
It has been suggested, that our Commissioners signed this treaty without the privity of the Court of France.
We now know whose act it was, and we know that it was committed without Gladstone's privity.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography | George William Erskine Russell
British Dictionary definitions for privity
/ (ˈprɪvɪtɪ) /
a legally recognized relationship existing between two parties, such as that between lessor and lessee and between the parties to a contract: privity of estate; privity of contract
secret knowledge that is shared
Origin of privity
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