privity
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Is privity a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of privity?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.Examples: "But yet there is a place that men clepe the school of God, where he was wont to teach his disciples, and told them the privities of heaven."countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (now rare, archaic) Privacy, secrecy.Examples: "Him oft and oft I askt in priuitie, / Of what loines and what lignage I did spring[…]."archaiccountableuncountable
3. (obsolete) A private matter, a secret.countableobsoleteuncountable
4. (archaic, in the plural) The genitals.Examples: "Having ended the delights of nature, they were wont to wipe their privities [translating catze] with perfumed wooll."archaiccountablein-pluraluncountable
5. (law) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, e.g. contract, estate, etc.Examples: "There is no privity, (as the lawyers say),—that is, no mutual recognition, consent and agreement—between those who take these oaths, and any other persons."countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary