\Priv"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Privities} (-t[i^]z). [From
{Privy}, a.: cf. F. privaut['e] extreme familiarity.]
1. Privacy; secrecy; confidence. --Chaucer.
         I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my
         purpose.                              --Spenser.
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.
                                               --Swift.
3. A private matter or business; a secret. --Chaucer.
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.