Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Secretly.
  • Secret.
  • noun A secret, or secrets collectively; a matter or matters of secrecy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Secret; secretive; faithful to a secret.
  • noun obsolete A secret.

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  • noun Obsolete form of secret.

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Examples

  • The men who had recruited him managed to keep his true identity a deep t, so deep that, when they finally discovered the truth, secre they were too busy hiding it for the sake of their own skins to be bothered with denouncing Caspar.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • Women are naturally secre - tive, and they like to do their own secreting.

    Sole Music 2010

  • They keep showing footage of her standing in front of what seems to be an ordinary suburban home, but when the front door opens, her awful secre ...

    Ann Leary: Hoarder Culture 2009

  • They keep showing footage of her standing in front of what seems to be an ordinary suburban home, but when the front door opens, her awful secre ...

    Ann Leary: Hoarder Culture 2009

  • The simian has no sentiment secre-tions but weep cataracts for all me, Pain the Shamman!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Finati then received five hundred piastres and an order to join a corps at Taif, together with a strict charge of secre [c] y, “since it was of importance that no reverse or check should be generally talked of.”

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • He planned to go down and check out the woods behind Ah's place later on to sec if hc could find any sign of her secre tive visitor.

    Greenmantle De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1985

  • It was I who called in the secre police ... but only after she was safely away. '

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • Only three other persons had similar keys: Claudia Chen, his executive-secre-tary; his personal secretary, Sandra Yi; and his Number One Houseboy, Lim Chu.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Only three other persons had similar keys: Claudia Chen, his executive-secre-tary; his personal secretary, Sandra Yi; and his Number One Houseboy, Lim Chu.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

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