secret
adjective
done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others.
secretness
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a word derived from
secret.
Example Sentences
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He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention, and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there is some violence in everyone.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
He has tales of a thousand incarnations hidden away in secretness.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
Straightway they went into the forest in all quiet and secretness, and surrounded the whole wood, for they had folk in plenty, who bore axes and staves, and some their naked swords.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
I tracked these streams winding in secretness far away.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
I marvel greatly thou dost me so atwite Of the doubt, that thou hast of my secretness: As secret as thyself I shall be doubtless.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
