An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PRIVITIES
Noun
privities
plural of privity
Noun
privities pl (plural only)
(archaic) The genitals.
Source: Wiktionary
PRIVITY
Priv"i*ty, n.; pl. Privities (-tîz). Etym: [From Privy, a.: cf. F. privauté extreme familiarity.]
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. pl.
Definition: The genitals; the privates.
5. (Law)
Definition: A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
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