Secrecy
1Secrecy — Se cre*cy, n.; pl. {Secrecies}. [From {Secret}.] 1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. [1913 Webster] The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2 …
2secrecy — index concealment, confidence (relation of trust), evasion, mystery, obscuration, privacy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3secrecy — (n.) early 15c., secretee, quality of being secret, from O.Fr. secré, variant of secret (see SECRET (Cf. secret)). Form altered late 16c. on model of primacy, etc …
4secrecy — [n] concealment clandestineness, confidence, confidentiality, covertness, dark, darkness, furtiveness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, retirement, seclusion, secretiveness, secretness, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression …
5secrecy — [sē′krə sē] n. pl. secrecies [altered < ME secretee < secre, secret < OFr secré < L secretus: see SECRET] 1. the condition of being secret or concealed 2. a tendency to keep things secret; practice or habit of being secretive …
6Secrecy — For the 2008 documentary film, see Secrecy (film). Secret and Covert redirect here. For other uses, see Secret (disambiguation) and Covert (disambiguation). Clandestinity redirects here. For the diriment impediment in the canon law of the Roman… …
7secrecy — n. 1) to ensure secrecy 2) strict secrecy 3) secrecy in (secrecy in conducting negotiations) 4) in secrecy (to meet in secrecy) (the meetings were held in the strictest secrecy) 5) (misc.) to swear smb. to secrecy * * * [ siːkrɪsɪ] (misc.) to… …
8secrecy — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, total ▪ great, strict, utmost ▪ excessive ▪ government …
9secrecy — se|cre|cy [ˈsi:krəsi] n [U] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: secretie secrecy (15 16 centuries), from secre secret (14 16 centuries), from Old French secré, from Latin secretus; SECRET1] 1.) the process of keeping something secret, or when something is… …
10secrecy — se|cre|cy [ sikrəsi ] noun uncount a situation in which you keep something secret, or the process of keeping something secret: Discussions were to take place in total secrecy. shrouded/cloaked/veiled in secrecy: The Iraqi contract was shrouded in …
