Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Secret, hidden, or concealed character or condition.
- noun Secretive character or disposition; secretiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.
- noun Secretiveness; concealment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Quality of being secret. - noun archaic
Secrecy .
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Examples
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And there's a certain secretness that makes it attractive and it taps into our sinful natures in that it pulls at the very core of who we are.
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We can expect the military to resist, to use security — top secretness — as an excuse not to participate.
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We can expect the military to resist, to use security — top secretness — as an excuse not to participate.
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Turns out the “po-po” had been by an hour earlier and sure enough, we were escorted into The Squeeze with much furtive secretness, into a party that was officially slamming.
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Turns out the “po-po” had been by an hour earlier and sure enough, we were escorted into The Squeeze with much furtive secretness, into a party that was officially slamming.
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There was a great deal of privacy and secretness about the locations of the funeral.
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Supposing I were in all secretness to cut the hawser mooring one of those ships?
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O Jesu Christ, who might be so blessed that might see openly thy great marvels of secretness there where no sinner may be!
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Flood of warm jamjam lickitup secretness flowed to flow in music out, in desire, dark to lick flow invading.
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A true dream, of true love, a dream that came from the paths of secretness within her own and Alvin's hearts.
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