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Secrecy   /sˈikrəsi/   Listen
Secrecy

noun
(pl. secrecies)
1.
The trait of keeping things secret.  Synonyms: secretiveness, silence.
2.
The condition of being concealed or hidden.  Synonyms: concealment, privacy, privateness.






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"Secrecy" Quotes from Famous Books



... he enjoined absolute secrecy on everybody in the household. The Greenwood Club promised the same thing, and as there are no Sunday afternoon papers, the murder was not publicly known until Monday. The coroner himself notified ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... hundreds of thousands more for full Anx use, Jason swore Lab Nine to secrecy and installed the pilot model in his own office. He had enough authority ...
— Zero Data • Charles Saphro

... exact date—a Frenchman died in New Orleans (Beranger was his name), who confessed on his death-bed that he had brought the dauphin to this country and placed him with the Indians of Northern New York. He stated that he had taken an oath of secrecy, for the protection of the lad, but could not die without confessing ...
— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley

... by hearing of the appearance in France of these monstrous engines of war, but as a cloud of secrecy hung over all their movements, had never up to that moment seen one. Those used on this front were much smaller than their French relations, and were as a matter of fact a comparative failure in Palestine. Whether the sand was too much for them, or the rough country over which they had ...
— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett

... towards the cost of contesting a seat, object to his constituents knowing that the balance had been found from funds provided by others who wish well to the cause he is advocating? If the system is wrong, let it be abolished; if right, why try to preserve secrecy? ...
— Rebuilding Britain - A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War • Alfred Hopkinson


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