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secrecy|ˈsiːkrəsɪ|
Forms: α. 5 secretee, 6 secretie, -ye; β. 6–7 secrecie (6 secricie,), secresie, 6–9 secresy, 6– secrecy.
[In 15–16th c. secretee, -tie, app. f. secre a. or secret a. + -ty or -y. Cf. med.L. secretia a royal treasury. Late in the 16th c. altered to secrecie, app. after words like primacy.]
1. The quality of being secret or of not revealing secrets; the action, practice, or habit of keeping things secret.
α1423Jas. I Kingis Q. xcvii, Stude at the dure fair⁓calling hir vschere, That coude his office doon In connyng wise, And secretee, hir thrifty chamberere.
β1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 112 Constant you are, But yet a woman: and for secrecie, No Lady closer. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 116 If you conceale this I must thinke that..you begin to suspect my secrecy. 1616Bacon Adv. to Villiers Wks. 1872 VI. 41 And that the servants attending the clerks of the council be also bound to secrecy. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 50 By reason of his singular secrecy in keeping his purposes unknowne. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 167 For who could expect secrecy in such a slave of Cleopatra. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxiv. 150, I have Intreated Mrs. Selwyn to observe the strictest secrecy. 1819Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. viii. 232 An intelligent friend on whose style of expression, prudence, and secrecy his Grace could put perfect reliance. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 532 He arranged his plan with characteristic prudence, firmness, and secresy. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. iv. (1877) 88 We appear to know a great deal of one another, and yet, if we reflect, what a vast system of secrecy the moral world is.
2. a. The condition or fact of being secret or concealed. in secrecy: secretly.
α1563Mirr. Mag., Ld. Hastings xc, Your polytyke secretes gard with trusty loyaltye So shall they lurk in most assured secretye. 1581Hanmer Jesuites Banner D 3, His sacrificing Priestes hearing confession were woonte to reueale unto him, all that in secretie was deliuered vnto them.
β1575Gascoigne Glasse Govt. iv. iv. Wks. 1910 II. 65, & because in all thinges Secresie is a great furderaunce, it shalbe best that we draw our selves apart unto one of your houses. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, ii. i, A friend of mine told me in secrecie, That hees repeald and sent for backe againe. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iii. ii. 403 The Lady Anne, Whom the King hath in secrecie long married, This day was view'd in open, as his Queene. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xix. 96 Nor is there any place,..wherein an Assemblie can receive Counsell with secrecie. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. 1842 I. 14 On his return to court, he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secresy of a criminal. 1819Macintosh Parl. Suffrage Wks. 1846 III. 227 The first objection to this proposal is, that the Ballot would not produce secrecy. 1881Fenn Vicar's People xlvi, [He] removed his tobacco quid, and stuffed the dirty-brown, wet morsel into the secrecy of his trousers pocket.
†b. Retirement, seclusion. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 37 The males giue great honor to the females great with young, during the time of their secrecie. 1608― Serpents 15 There is a question, whether when they be in this secrecie or drouzines, they awake not to eate. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 427 Thou in thy secresie although alone, Best with thy self accompanied, seek'st not Social communication.
3. a. quasi-concr. Something which is or has been kept secret; a secret; the secret nature or condition of something. Often collect. sing. or pl., secret matters, mysteries. Obs. or arch.
αc1450Lydg. Secrees 38 The which book..Whylom compyled by Arystotilees, Which in sapience of Secretees hath the name. 1517Tunstall in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 134 Besids al other maters contenyd in our Lettres..oon is in them untowchyd by cause I wold not make my clerke privey to the secretie theroff.
β1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 17 To answere stranger ciuilie, but shew him not thy secresie. 1594Willobie's Avisa xliv. (Grosart) 40 H. W...pyneth a while in secret griefe, at length..bewrayeth the secresy of his disease vnto his familiar friend W. S. 1598Yong Diana 308 A famous Shepherd..to whose skill and knowledge, it seemed, nature it selfe with all her secrecies was subject. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 305 So shall my anticipation preuent your discouery of your secricie to the King and Queene. a1617P. Bayne On Eph. (1658) Contents, The doctrine of our salvation is a hidden secrecy. 1633Ford Broken H. ii. iii, I'me not inquisitiue of secrecies without an inuitation. 1645Milton Tetrach. 44 Leaving secrecies to conscience. 1660Charac. Italy 85 In the Secresies and Operations of Medecine none could excel Fracastorius [etc.]. 1665R. Brathwait Comment. Two Tales (1901) 20 He solemnly swears his Host to keep counsel in a secrecy of such high consequence. 1893F. Thompson Poems 50, I in their delicate fellowship was one—Drew the bolt of Nature's secrecies.
†b. The secret parts (of a person). Obs. rare—1.
c1675Roxb. Ball. (1890) VII. 59 A shirt out of his Cloak⁓bag presently plucked he, And put it on the woman to cover her secresie.
†4. The condition of being entrusted with a person's secrets; intimate acquaintance, confidence.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. 165 Euen he who was of his secretie [1619 secrecy] and companion at meate. 1590Greene Orl. Fur. (1599) 18 But, Madame, marke a while, and you shall see, Your Father shake him off from secrecie. 1591–5Spenser Colin Clout 698 By creeping close into his secrecie. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. Life A 2, He..betook himself to a Monastery of regular Cannons, where for some years he had the secresie of Guilelmus Hermannus of Buda, a very studious and diligent youth.
5. Special Comb.: secrecy system, a system for ensuring the secrecy of transmitted speech by scrambling it at the transmitter.
1940[see privacy 1 b]. 1949[see communication theory s.v. communication 12]. |