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noun

Secret n.

Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed. "To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery."

A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery. "All secrets of the deep, all nature's works."

pl. The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.

In secret, in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately. "Bread eaten in secret is pleasant."

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Etymology of 'In secret'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"In secret" Quotes from Famous Books

... of this Congress was transacted in secret executive sessions. When the public was admitted, the people of Richmond generally looked on with contempt. They sneeringly referred to them as "the College Debating ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... enough, it is all no good. There is something I want to feel in my running blood, Something I want to touch; I must hold my face to the rain, I must hold my face to the wind, and let it explain Me its life as it hurries in secret. I will trail my hands again through the drenched, cold leaves Till my hands are full of the chillness and touch of leaves, Till at length they induce me to ...

— Amores - Poems • D. H. Lawrence

... dance of houses, a disorder that seems animated. There are houses that nod forward as if asleep, others that start backward as if frightened, some bending toward each other, their roofs almost touching, as if in secret conference; some falling upon one another as if they were drunk, some leaning backward between others that lean forward, like malefactors dragged onward by their guards; rows of houses that curtsey to a steeple, groups of small houses all inclined toward one in the ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various

... good time fer you to show Christian forbearance. He's been thoughtless, but heer lately he is a changed man, an' I believe he's tryin' his level best to do right in God's sight. He's had a peck o' trouble in one way or another over heer, but, in addition to that, I'm mistaken ef he don't suffer in secret day and night." ...

— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben

... the little company had laboured in secret. The thick, dark, lonely woods of Gramarye had sheltered all they did. No strange, unsympathetic eyes had ever peered at their zeal, curious and hostile. This was as well. They had—all ten of them—a freemasonry which the World would not understand. ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

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