privity

privity is a Noun

Definition:

[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] The genitals; the privates.

[5] A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.