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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"In secret" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the island, and whose influence has been singularly useful to our colony. I will add that the unknown appears to possess means of action which border on the supernatural if, in the events of practical life, the supernatural were recognisable. Is it he who is in secret communication with us by the well in Granite House, and has he thus a knowledge of all our plans? Was it he who threw us that bottle, when the vessel made her first cruise? Was it he who threw Top out of the lake, and killed the dugong? Was it he, who as everything leads us to believe, ...

— The Secret of the Island • W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne)

... the path of the land-grabber and company-promoter. Later on in the session his powers of debate, undeviating resolution, and determined opposition to Governmental measures that he regarded as injurious to the natives began to make Ministers uneasy; and although they cursed him in secret for a meddling fool and mad-brained enthusiast, they no longer attempted to ride rough-shod over him in the House, especially as the Labour members, who held the balance of power, entertained very friendly feelings ...

— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke

... servants, not a single fee or remembrance, traced to the chancellor, can, by any fair construction, be called a bribe. Not one appears to have been given on a promise; not one appears to have been given in secret; not one is alleged to have ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various

... and which might afford, upon occasion, a safe and secret shelter for such tools as were fit for desperate enterprises, and a private and unobserved mode of access to those whom he might have any special reason for receiving in secret. ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... father say, Philip? Oh, it is quite impossible we can ever be more than friends,—brother and sister in secret, as we have been. Let us give ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

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