CONCEALMENT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Concealment

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kənsˈilmənt/ Listen

noun

Concealment n.

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed. "But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek." "Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile."

A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation. "The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few."

A secret; out of the way knowledge. (Obs.) "Well read in strange concealments."

(Law) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known.

See images of 'Concealment'

Etymology of 'Concealment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Concealment" Quotes from Famous Books

... respect to the motives and the designs of the men who had thus revolted against his nephew, and it was of course impossible for him to know how he himself would be regarded by either party. He did not dare, therefore, to surrender himself to either, but remained in his concealment, suffering great anxiety, and utterly unable to ...

— Nero - Makers of History Series • Jacob Abbott

... My father had a daughter loved a man, as I perhaps, were I a woman, should love your lordship."—"And what is her history?" said Orsino. "A blank, my lord," replied Viola: "she never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief." The duke inquired if this lady died of her love, but to this question Viola returned an evasive answer; ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

... out-of-the-way hole or corner suggested by the same tenor of thought which would urge a man to secrete a letter in a gimlet-hole bored in a chair leg? And do you not see also, that such recherche nooks for concealment are adapted only for ordinary occasions, and would be adopted only by ordinary intellects?—for, in all cases of concealment, a disposal of the article concealed—a disposal of it in this recherche ...

— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson

... after his exposure Eric had cut him dead, without the least pretence of concealment; an example pretty generally followed ...

— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar

... her holy confidence in human goodness and truth should be shattered and destroyed. But the day of revelation must come. From the grave, whither I am hastening, my voice shall speak; for the time may come, when a knowledge of your parentage will be indispensable, and concealment be ...

— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

More quotes...