concealv.

Brit.

/kənˈsiːl/, U.S.

/kənˈsil/

Forms: Middle English conceil, Middle English consail, Middle English conseale (in a late copy), Middle English counceyll, Middle English counsele, Middle English–1500s consele, Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s conceale, Middle English–1600s concele, Middle English–1600s conseal, 1500s conceile, 1500s– conceal; also Scottish pre-1700 conceale, pre-1700 conceall, pre-1700 conceil, pre-1700 conceill, pre-1700 concele, pre-1700 concell, pre-1700 conseill, pre-1700 consele. N.E.D. (1891) also records a form late Middle English consile.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French conceler; Latin concēlāre.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman conceler, conceller, conseiler, conseler, cunceler to keep (something) secret, to refrain from disclosing or divulging (something) (first third of the 13th cent. or earlier as cunceler ), to hide (a person or thing) (a1380 or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin concēlāre (in post-classical Latin also conselare) to keep secret (2nd cent. a.d. in Aulus Gellius) < con- con- prefix + cēlāre to hide (see cele v.). Compare earlier concealment n.Compare Middle French (rare) concelleir (1424 in a source from Liège).

a. transitive. To keep (information, intentions, feelings, etc.) from the knowledge of others; to keep secret from (formerly also †to) others; to refrain from disclosing or divulging.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)]

heeleOE

dernc893

mitheeOE

wryOE

buryc1175

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dilla1300

laina1375

keepa1382

wrapa1382

cover1382

conceala1393

curea1400

shroud1412

veilc1460

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wrap1560

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muffle1582

estrange1611

screen1621

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umbrage1675

reserve1719

restrict1802

hugger-mugger1803

mask1841

ward1881

thimblerig1899

marzipan1974

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4635 (MED) Thou hast to me conceled That my lord hath with othre deled.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27445 (MED) It es als vnder sel O scrift him [sc. the confessor] sceud al to consail [Fairf. counsele].

1405 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 59 Ye trewis is well concelyte fra yhour audience.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 577 [He] couth Secretis rycht weill conceil [1489 Adv. conseill].

1491–2 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1491 §15. m. 7 The seid John..caste the seid writing in the fire, and conseled all the matier.

1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces iii. sig. R.3 In euery delyberacyon the hope and opynyon to concele and hyde is to be auoyded.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xi. sig. G8 She concealed her sorow, nor cause of her sorow from no body.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 112 If sir you come with newes from the court..theres but two waies, either to vtter them, or conceale them.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 751 Thy praise hee..Conceales not from us.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xlix. 301 If she would lay Claim to her Reverentials, as I may say, and not endeavour to conceal her Age.

1767 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 46 Has your favourite concealed from you that part of our history?

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 50 Concealing from him all knowledge who or what he was.

1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxix. 175 The latter could not conceal her pleasure at the bequest.

1921 F. Hutchins & C. Hutchins Sword Liberty ii. 27 While the marquis concealed his intentions, he openly avowed his sentiments.

2010 N.Y. Times 12 Apr. 5/1 He..does not conceal his feelings about the state of contemporary opera.

b. transitive. To keep the nature or identity of (a person or thing) secret; to disguise. Now chiefly with as.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > conceal by disguise [verb (transitive)]

beclout?c1225

disguisea1375

veilc1384

dissimule1485

counterfeit1490

dissemble?1507

guisea1510

wry1567

discountenance1574

conceal1598

belie1610

dislikena1616

obvolve1623

transvest1649

travesty1665

mask1847

camouflage1917

1598 E. Ford Parismus iii. sig. C^v Ladies..whom the Queene had entertained, not knowing what they were, because they concealed themselues.

a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 305 To dissemble or concele that Fidelity and Allegiance they ow'd to their King.

1718 Free-thinker No. 13. 1 Calista is the Name under which I shall conceal the Lady.

1859 tr. G. Favey Short Stories from Hist. Switzerland v. 148 D'Eschembach spent thirty-five long years concealed as a shepherd in a remote corner of Würtemberg.

1918 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 590/2 So, concealed as a movement to conserve shipping, the coal-shortage of western Europe came bodily to America.

2011 J. Endredy Lightning in my Blood i. 24 The stairs to enter it were cleverly concealed as a formation of vines circling upward.

a. transitive. To hide (a person or thing); to put or keep out of sight or notice. Also: to prevent from being visible.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)]

heeleOE

forhelec888

i-hedec888

dernc893

hidec897

wryOE

behelec1000

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forhidec1000

overheleOE

hilla1250

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hulsterc1400

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obumber?1440

mufflea1450

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mew?c1450

purloin1461

to keep close?1471

oversilec1478

bewrap1481

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occulta1500

silec1500

smoor1513

shadec1530

skleir1532

oppressa1538

hudder-mudder1544

pretex1548

lap?c1550

absconce1570

to steek away1575

couch1577

recondite1578

huddle1581

mew1581

enshrine1582

enshroud1582

mask1582

veil1582

abscondc1586

smotherc1592

blot1593

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immask1595

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palliate1598

hoodwinka1600

overmaska1600

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undisclose1601

disguise1605

screen1611

underfold1612

huke1613

eclipsea1616

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ensconcea1616

obscurify1622

cloud1623

inmewa1625

beclouda1631

pretext1634

covert1647

sconce1652

tapisa1660

shun1661

sneak1701

overlay1719

secrete1741

blank1764

submerge1796

slur1813

wrap1817

buttress1820

stifle1820

disidentify1845

to stick away1900

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 364 (MED) How he conceiled Policene.

a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. D.ii^v The wardens of churches in tyme of visitacion to periurie..conceale images, roode loftes and aulters.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 51 Bring them to heare me speak, where I may be conceal'd .

1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iii. 28 The Army, that lies conceal'd for him in Knights-bridge.

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 146 A Goblet rich with Gems..The hollow Part Inclos'd, the Lid conceal'd the Lover's Heart.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 174 He could not see us; for there was a blind that concealed us from the view.

1859 J. S. Gibbons Banks N.Y. xiv. 255 The coin..is also reduced..by having small holes drilled through it, which are concealed by hammering.

1877 Nineteenth Cent. Oct. 409 He..could have concealed himself in any one of a hundred hiding-places.

1921 C. Kingston Remarkable Rogues xix. 268 He..had the canvas concealed in the false bottom of a trunk and taken to America.

1994 Amer. Spectator Nov. 40/2 The behavior is typical of an attempt to conceal a weapon.

2012 Daily Tel. 20 July 30/2 I'm very conscious of my stomach, so I tend to conceal my waist.

†b. intransitive. To hide oneself. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)]

mitheeOE

wryOE

darea1225

skulka1300

hidec1330

hulkc1330

dilla1400

droopc1420

shroudc1450

darkenc1475

conceal1591

lie1604

dern1608

burrow1614

obscurea1626

to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1701

lie close1719

1591 (?a1425) Three Kings (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 158 Lord God..That dye would for mankyndes heale, thow come to us and not conceale, but bee our counselour.

c. transitive. To hide (the flavour, taste, smell, etc.) of something; to make imperceptible.

ΚΠ

1794 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 690/1 It [sc. salted beef] was very near a state of putrefaction, though the salt concealed it from the taste and smell.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 144 As the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 51 The noises of the storm effectually concealed all others.

1912 E. J. Banks Bismya xix. 284 We gathered some of the [licorice] roots and placed them in a jug of water to flavour it, or rather to conceal the flavour which it already had.

2008 S. Faulks Devil may Care vi. 59 No amount of expensive scents had quite concealed a rancid under-smell of socks.

3. intransitive. To keep something from the knowledge or observation of others; to practice concealment.

ΚΠ

1804 T. Holcroft Trav. Hamburg to Paris II. cxix. 275 To conceal, to deceive, to fix the attention on false points.

1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 85 They who hoard and conceal.

1907 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 Feb. 710/1 The employment of unusual terms for a public not familiar with such terms evidences a desire to conceal and to deceive.

2009 K. R. Jamison Nothing was Same 173 My new dresses were meant to conceal, to inhibit the responses of others.

Derivatives

conˈcealing n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun]

hiding?c1225

heelinga1250

hidea1300

hillinga1300

coverturec1374

tapinage1390

concealing1421

hodymokec1450

occultation1453

concelising1492

blindnessa1616

concealmenta1616

shrouding1615

back-hood1621

absconsion1649

screening1651

obvelation1664

muffling1788

tucking1810

smokescreening1922

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective]

concealing1421

hiding1483

veiling?1591

palliative1611

shrouding1623

muffling1638

maskinga1652

screening?a1656

wimpling1747

secretive1830

secludinga1851

hideaway1876

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not mentioning

concealing1421

unreferring1655

undescriptive1827

1421 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) III. 58 Quhar the conselyng off lawte may gener preiudice to the innocent.

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 163 Ingenuous concealings, or amendings of what is..amisse.

1792 Ld. Monboddo Of Origin & Progress of Lang. VI. iv. ii. 300 The greatest art of a speaker or writer, namely, the concealing of art.

2006 S. Nunez Last of her Kind 42 The concealing of identities really did encourage everyone to be pitilessly frank.

conˈcealing adj.

ΚΠ

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B7^v Double griefs afflict concealing harts.

1781 S. J. Pratt Fair Circassian i. i. 2 Omar drew From the concealing robe another scroll.

1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours iv. 98 If we held the concealing medium to be of a cloudy nature.

2004 M. Kupihea Seven Dawns Aumakua iv. 93 Only a few of them displayed remnants of having had a concealing rock wall.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	conceal
释义	concealv. Brit. /kənˈsiːl/, U.S. /kənˈsil/ Forms: Middle English conceil, Middle English consail, Middle English conseale (in a late copy), Middle English counceyll, Middle English counsele, Middle English–1500s consele, Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s conceale, Middle English–1600s concele, Middle English–1600s conseal, 1500s conceile, 1500s– conceal; also Scottish pre-1700 conceale, pre-1700 conceall, pre-1700 conceil, pre-1700 conceill, pre-1700 concele, pre-1700 concell, pre-1700 conseill, pre-1700 consele. N.E.D. (1891) also records a form late Middle English consile. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French conceler; Latin concēlāre. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman conceler, conceller, conseiler, conseler, cunceler to keep (something) secret, to refrain from disclosing or divulging (something) (first third of the 13th cent. or earlier as cunceler ), to hide (a person or thing) (a1380 or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin concēlāre (in post-classical Latin also conselare) to keep secret (2nd cent. a.d. in Aulus Gellius) < con- con- prefix + cēlāre to hide (see cele v.). Compare earlier concealment n.Compare Middle French (rare) concelleir (1424 in a source from Liège). 1. a. transitive. To keep (information, intentions, feelings, etc.) from the knowledge of others; to keep secret from (formerly also †to) others; to refrain from disclosing or divulging. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] heeleOE dernc893 mitheeOE wryOE buryc1175 hidec1200 dilla1300 laina1375 keepa1382 wrapa1382 cover1382 conceala1393 curea1400 shroud1412 veilc1460 smorec1480 cele1484 suppress1533 wrap1560 smoulder1571 squat1577 muffle1582 estrange1611 screen1621 lock1646 umbrage1675 reserve1719 restrict1802 hugger-mugger1803 mask1841 ward1881 thimblerig1899 marzipan1974 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4635 (MED) Thou hast to me conceled That my lord hath with othre deled. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27445 (MED) It es als vnder sel O scrift him [sc. the confessor] sceud al to consail [Fairf. counsele]. 1405 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 59 Ye trewis is well concelyte fra yhour audience. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 577 [He] couth Secretis rycht weill conceil [1489 Adv. conseill]. 1491–2 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1491 §15. m. 7 The seid John..caste the seid writing in the fire, and conseled all the matier. 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces iii. sig. R.3 In euery delyberacyon the hope and opynyon to concele and hyde is to be auoyded. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xi. sig. G8 She concealed her sorow, nor cause of her sorow from no body. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 112 If sir you come with newes from the court..theres but two waies, either to vtter them, or conceale them. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 751 Thy praise hee..Conceales not from us. View more context for this quotation 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xlix. 301 If she would lay Claim to her Reverentials, as I may say, and not endeavour to conceal her Age. 1767 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 46 Has your favourite concealed from you that part of our history? 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 50 Concealing from him all knowledge who or what he was. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxix. 175 The latter could not conceal her pleasure at the bequest. 1921 F. Hutchins & C. Hutchins Sword Liberty ii. 27 While the marquis concealed his intentions, he openly avowed his sentiments. 2010 N.Y. Times 12 Apr. 5/1 He..does not conceal his feelings about the state of contemporary opera. b. transitive. To keep the nature or identity of (a person or thing) secret; to disguise. Now chiefly with as. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > conceal by disguise [verb (transitive)] beclout?c1225 disguisea1375 veilc1384 dissimule1485 counterfeit1490 dissemble?1507 guisea1510 wry1567 discountenance1574 conceal1598 belie1610 dislikena1616 obvolve1623 transvest1649 travesty1665 mask1847 camouflage1917 1598 E. Ford Parismus iii. sig. C^v Ladies..whom the Queene had entertained, not knowing what they were, because they concealed themselues. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 305 To dissemble or concele that Fidelity and Allegiance they ow'd to their King. 1718 Free-thinker No. 13. 1 Calista is the Name under which I shall conceal the Lady. 1859 tr. G. Favey Short Stories from Hist. Switzerland v. 148 D'Eschembach spent thirty-five long years concealed as a shepherd in a remote corner of Würtemberg. 1918 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 590/2 So, concealed as a movement to conserve shipping, the coal-shortage of western Europe came bodily to America. 2011 J. Endredy Lightning in my Blood i. 24 The stairs to enter it were cleverly concealed as a formation of vines circling upward. 2. a. transitive. To hide (a person or thing); to put or keep out of sight or notice. Also: to prevent from being visible. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)] heeleOE forhelec888 i-hedec888 dernc893 hidec897 wryOE behelec1000 behidec1000 bewryc1000 forhidec1000 overheleOE hilla1250 fealc1325 cover1340 forcover1382 blinda1400 hulsterc1400 overclosec1400 concealc1425 shroud1426 blend1430 close1430 shadow1436 obumber?1440 mufflea1450 alaynec1450 mew?c1450 purloin1461 to keep close?1471 oversilec1478 bewrap1481 supprime1490 occulta1500 silec1500 smoor1513 shadec1530 skleir1532 oppressa1538 hudder-mudder1544 pretex1548 lap?c1550 absconce1570 to steek away1575 couch1577 recondite1578 huddle1581 mew1581 enshrine1582 enshroud1582 mask1582 veil1582 abscondc1586 smotherc1592 blot1593 sheathe1594 immask1595 secret1595 bemist1598 palliate1598 hoodwinka1600 overmaska1600 hugger1600 obscure1600 upwrap1600 undisclose1601 disguise1605 screen1611 underfold1612 huke1613 eclipsea1616 encavea1616 ensconcea1616 obscurify1622 cloud1623 inmewa1625 beclouda1631 pretext1634 covert1647 sconce1652 tapisa1660 shun1661 sneak1701 overlay1719 secrete1741 blank1764 submerge1796 slur1813 wrap1817 buttress1820 stifle1820 disidentify1845 to stick away1900 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 364 (MED) How he conceiled Policene. a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. D.ii^v The wardens of churches in tyme of visitacion to periurie..conceale images, roode loftes and aulters. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 51 Bring them to heare me speak, where I may be conceal'd . View more context for this quotation 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iii. 28 The Army, that lies conceal'd for him in Knights-bridge. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 146 A Goblet rich with Gems..The hollow Part Inclos'd, the Lid conceal'd the Lover's Heart. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 174 He could not see us; for there was a blind that concealed us from the view. 1859 J. S. Gibbons Banks N.Y. xiv. 255 The coin..is also reduced..by having small holes drilled through it, which are concealed by hammering. 1877 Nineteenth Cent. Oct. 409 He..could have concealed himself in any one of a hundred hiding-places. 1921 C. Kingston Remarkable Rogues xix. 268 He..had the canvas concealed in the false bottom of a trunk and taken to America. 1994 Amer. Spectator Nov. 40/2 The behavior is typical of an attempt to conceal a weapon. 2012 Daily Tel. 20 July 30/2 I'm very conscious of my stomach, so I tend to conceal my waist. †b. intransitive. To hide oneself. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] mitheeOE wryOE darea1225 skulka1300 hidec1330 hulkc1330 dilla1400 droopc1420 shroudc1450 darkenc1475 conceal1591 lie1604 dern1608 burrow1614 obscurea1626 to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1701 lie close1719 1591 (?a1425) Three Kings (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 158 Lord God..That dye would for mankyndes heale, thow come to us and not conceale, but bee our counselour. c. transitive. To hide (the flavour, taste, smell, etc.) of something; to make imperceptible. ΚΠ 1794 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 690/1 It [sc. salted beef] was very near a state of putrefaction, though the salt concealed it from the taste and smell. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 144 As the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations. 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 51 The noises of the storm effectually concealed all others. 1912 E. J. Banks Bismya xix. 284 We gathered some of the [licorice] roots and placed them in a jug of water to flavour it, or rather to conceal the flavour which it already had. 2008 S. Faulks Devil may Care vi. 59 No amount of expensive scents had quite concealed a rancid under-smell of socks. 3. intransitive. To keep something from the knowledge or observation of others; to practice concealment. ΚΠ 1804 T. Holcroft Trav. Hamburg to Paris II. cxix. 275 To conceal, to deceive, to fix the attention on false points. 1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 85 They who hoard and conceal. 1907 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 Feb. 710/1 The employment of unusual terms for a public not familiar with such terms evidences a desire to conceal and to deceive. 2009 K. R. Jamison Nothing was Same 173 My new dresses were meant to conceal, to inhibit the responses of others. Derivatives conˈcealing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] hiding?c1225 heelinga1250 hidea1300 hillinga1300 coverturec1374 tapinage1390 concealing1421 hodymokec1450 occultation1453 concelising1492 blindnessa1616 concealmenta1616 shrouding1615 back-hood1621 absconsion1649 screening1651 obvelation1664 muffling1788 tucking1810 smokescreening1922 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] concealing1421 hiding1483 veiling?1591 palliative1611 shrouding1623 muffling1638 maskinga1652 screening?a1656 wimpling1747 secretive1830 secludinga1851 hideaway1876 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not mentioning concealing1421 unreferring1655 undescriptive1827 1421 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) III. 58 Quhar the conselyng off lawte may gener preiudice to the innocent. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 163 Ingenuous concealings, or amendings of what is..amisse. 1792 Ld. Monboddo Of Origin & Progress of Lang. VI. iv. ii. 300 The greatest art of a speaker or writer, namely, the concealing of art. 2006 S. Nunez Last of her Kind 42 The concealing of identities really did encourage everyone to be pitilessly frank. conˈcealing adj. ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B7^v Double griefs afflict concealing harts. 1781 S. J. Pratt Fair Circassian i. i. 2 Omar drew From the concealing robe another scroll. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours iv. 98 If we held the concealing medium to be of a cloudy nature. 2004 M. Kupihea Seven Dawns Aumakua iv. 93 Only a few of them displayed remnants of having had a concealing rock wall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.a1393
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