secrecy
noun
the state or condition of being secret, hidden, or concealed.
secrecies
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pluralof secrecy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Once the eye gets used to the quirks and secrecies of his inimitable shorthand, it discovers how deeply regional an artist he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hark! as I look up into thy high secrecies, oh, tree, the face, the face, peeps down on me!—'Art thou Pierre?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
With all his faults, his poses, his superficialities, his secrecies, his egotisms, I never dreamed of him as aught but a loyal and honourable gentleman.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
He returned to his home in Coburg, exchanging, once for all, the momentous secrecies of European statecraft for the tittle-tattle of a provincial capital and the gossip of family life.
From Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
And he thought how marvellous was the protective vastness of the town, beneath whose shield he was free—free to live different lives simultaneously, to make his own laws, to maintain indefinitely exciting and delicious secrecies.
From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett
