different between privity vs primity

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman priveté, privitee et al., Old French priveté, from privé + -té.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??v?ti/

Noun

privity (countable and uncountable, plural privities)

1. (obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures. [12th–16th c.]
2. (now rare, archaic) Privacy, secrecy. [from 13th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     Him oft and oft I askt in priuitie, / Of what loines and what lignage I did spring […].

3. (obsolete) A private matter, a secret. [14th–17th c.]
4. (archaic, in the plural) The genitals. [from 14th c.]
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. [from 16th c.]
6. The fact of being privy to something; knowledge, compliance. [from 16th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.14:

     But this acknowledgement was made without the privity of his wife, whose vicious aversion he was obliged, in appearance, to adopt.

Derived terms

• horizontal privity
• vertical privity

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??m?ti/

Noun

primity

1. (obsolete) Quality of being first; primitiveness.
   • 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed

     This primity God requires to be attributed to himself […]