privities
- plural of privity.
Example Sentences
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We wear, in daylight, cloths around our privities; at night we cover ourselves with the skins of beasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
And anon the child spake to her and comforted her, and said, “Mother, ne dismay thee nought, for God hath hid in thee his privities for the salvation of the world.”
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
Take shepherd's purse, either boiled in any convenient liquor, or dried and beaten into a powder, and it will be an admirable remedy to stop them, this being especially appropriated to the privities.
And there slept Saint John the evangelist upon the breast of our Lord Jesu Christ, and saw sleeping many heavenly privities.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
