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  • noun Plural form of privity.
  • noun plurale tantum, archaic The genitals.

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Examples

  • The “parts below the waist” is the decent Turkish term for the privities.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Very interesting to the anthropological student is this excursus of Hasan, who after all manner of hardships and horrors and risking his life to recover his wife and children, breaks out into song on the subject of her privities.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The oil ran down inside his clothes to his privy parts and he cried out, O my privities!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Well, one thing that happened, some privities were recorded

    Billy C 2006

  • 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.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And after his conversion ne dwelt in that city three days, without sight and without meat or drink; and in those three days he was ravished to heaven, and there he saw many privities of our

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Jesu Christ, and saw sleeping many heavenly privities.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • “Mother, ne dismay thee nought, for God hath hid in thee his privities for the salvation of the world.”

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And afterward, when all this is done, he bringeth her to the privities of his chamber, and maketh her fellow at bed and at board.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • The which answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews and flee from them, knowing that they shall be taken by you, and come to Holofernes for to tell him their privities, and I shall show him by what entry he may win them, in such wise as one man of his host shall not perish.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

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