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privity

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Noun
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priv=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

privityn. [From Privy, a.: cf. F. privauté extreme familiarity.].
  •  Privacy; secrecy; confidence.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
    "I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my purpose."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.  [1913 Webster]
    "All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the Prince of Orange."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A private matter or business; a secret.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The genitals; the privates.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

privity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 Law a relation between two parties that is recognized by law, e.g. that of blood, lease, or service.
2 (often foll. by to) the state of being privy (to plans etc.).

Etymology
ME f. OF privet{eacute} f. med.L privitas -tatis f. L privus private

ROGET THESAURUS

privity

Knowledge

N knowledge, cognizance, cognition, cognoscence, acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity, comprehension, apprehension, recognition, appreciation, intuition, conscience, consciousness, perception, precognition, acroamatics, light, enlightenment, glimpse, inkling, glimmer, glimmering, dawn, scent, suspicion, impression, discovery, system of knowledge, body of knowledge, science, philosophy, pansophy, acroama, theory, aetiology, etiology, circle of the sciences, pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, school, tree of knowledge, republic of letters, erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters, literature, book madness, book learning, bookishness, bibliomania, bibliolatry, information, general information, store of knowledge, education, culture, menticulture, attainments, acquirements, acquisitions, accomplishments, proficiency, practical knowledge, liberal education, dilettantism, rudiments, deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning, omniscience, pantology, march of intellect, progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning, schoolmaster abroad, scholar, knowing, cognitive, acroamatic, aware of, cognizant of, conscious of, acquainted with, made acquainted with, privy to, no stranger to, au fait with, au courant, in the secret, up to, alive to, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, let into, apprized of, informed of, undeceived, proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in, conversant with, familiar with, erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated, well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated, enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned, accomplished, omniscient, self-taught, known, ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted, proverbial, familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy, hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace, cognoscible, cognizable, to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge, one's eyes being opened, ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner, to know all is to pardon all, empta dolore docet experientia, gnothi seauton, half our knowledge we must snatch not take, Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher, years teach more than books, knowledge comes but wisdom lingers, knowledge is power, les affaires font les hommes, nec scire fas est omnia, the amassed thought and experience of innumerable, was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.

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