in secret
Unknown to others, privately. For example, They met in secret, or, as Shakespeare put it in Love's Labour's Lost (5:2): “One word in secret.” [Second half of 1400s]
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seclusion
Words nearby in secret
inscrutable, insculp, inseam, in search of, in season, in secret, insect, Insecta, insectarium, insectary, insecticide
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