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secrecy (iou)



secrecy noun. LME.
[from SECRET adjective + -TY1 or -Y3, prob. after private, privacy.]
The quality of being secret or of not revealing secrets; the action, ability, or habit of keeping things secret. LME.
sworn to secrecy having promised to keep a secret.
F. Burney I have Intreated Mrs Selwyn to observe the strictest secrecy.
A secret; the secret nature or condition of something; in pl., secret matters, mysteries. arch. LME.
The state or fact of being secret or concealed. M16.
in secrecy secretly.
Ld Macaulay In spite of all injunctions of secrecy, the news..had spread fast.
b. Privacy, seclusion. E-M17.
The condition of being taken into a person's confidence; intimate acquaintance. L16-L17.