资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Privity \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.