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noun

Stealth n.

The act of stealing; theft. (Obs.) "The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw."

The thing stolen; stolen property. (Obs.) "Sluttish dens... serving to cover stealths."

The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; in either a good or a bad sense. "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." "The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades the brother's life by stealth." "I told him of your stealth unto this wood."

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Etymology of 'Stealth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stealth" Quotes from Famous Books

... of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me, though I had done no mischief; nor was there a monk who durst speak to me? nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.'[10] ...

— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle

... I succeeded by stealth in learning to read and write a little, and since I have been in the North I have learned more. But I need not say that I have been obliged to employ the services of a friend, in bringing this Narrative into shape for the public eye. And ...

— The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. • Lunsford Lane

... and women worshipped the implacable God of the Puritans in the secret chambers of those narrow streets; and those who gathered together in these days—if they rejected the Liturgy of the Church of England—must indeed be few, and must meet by stealth, as if to pray or preach after their own manner were a crime. Charles, within a year or so of his general amnesty and happy restoration, had made such worship criminal; and now the Five Mile Act, lately passed at Oxford, ...

— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... in the volume called "The Putnam Rebellion," the two teachers sought to subdue the boys by starving them and locking them in their dormitories. They rebelled, left the school by stealth, and marched away, to camp in the woods. There the rebels split up, one party under Major Jack and the other under Ritter. At last Captain Putnam put in an appearance, and Major Jack explained matters. As ...

— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield

... to have over-much converse with me, master. Yon Nunez has the eye of a hawk and the stealth of a viper, and if he does but suspect that you and I are in treaty together, he will throw me overboard with a dagger wound under ...

— In the Days of Drake • J. S. Fletcher

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