Prĭv'i-ty, n.
n. [From privy. Cf. Fr. privauté, extreme familiarity.]
Sense 1. Privacy; secrecy; confidence. [Rare.]
I will to you, in privity, discover the drift of my purpose. Spencer.
Sense 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.
Sense 3. That which is to be kept privy or private; a private matter; a secret. B. Jonson.
Sense 4. (Law.) A connection or bond of union between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. Broom. Greenleaf.
Sense 5. (pl.) The parts which modesty requires to be concealed; the secret parts.