| 单词 | a dead, entire, profound secret |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa dead, entire, profound secret 3. Some fact, affair, design, action, etc., the knowledge of which is kept to oneself or shared only with those whom it concerns or to whom it has been confided; something that cannot be divulged without violation of a command or breach of confidence. Frequently with an adjective prefixed, esp. as an intensive, as a dead, entire, profound secret. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret derna1000 counsel1377 secrec1386 dernheada1400 secretnessc1425 secrecyc1450 secret1450 concealment1598 reservation1612 cabal1631 recess1646 occult1648 reserve1680 state secret1822 reserving1844 inédit1910 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private matter or business counsel1377 secrec1386 secret1450 chamber counsela1616 privatea1616 particulara1617 privacya1625 confidence1748 1450–80 tr. Secreta Secret. lix. 35 Þat no man be so prive with him, forto se þe lettris of thi secretz. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. iii The shepherd..sayd paye me of that I haue kepte the secrete. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cliiijv Certen Senatours had disclosed their secretes. 1590 R. Williams Briefe Disc. Warre 16 There is also one Secretarie..who..knowes all the secret onlie that passeth betwixt the King & the Captain general. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 152 Quhome he..in al his secreitis admitted. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 2 Sir Thurio, giue vs leaue (I pray) a while, We haue some secrets to confer about. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. i. 86 O let me liue, And all the secrets of our campe Ile shew, Their force, their purposes. View more context for this quotation a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 323 Who was now admitted to the Councils, & Cabinet seacrets againe. 1701 G. Stanhope tr. St. Augustine Pious Breathings 123 The Gift is evident, and is the Giver a secret? 1743 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 20 Nov. (1966) II. 314 Reasons..for keeping it an entire secret. 1805 W. Scott Let. 12 Apr. (1932) I. 248 This is a dead secret. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed v, in Tales Crusaders I. 88 The monk, in alluding to the secrets of the confessional, had gone a step beyond what the rules of his order..permitted. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott II. ii. 42 It is an old saying, that wherever there is a secret there must be something wrong. 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) xi. 104 His writing for the prize poem had been a secret. 1876 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxvi, in Monthly Packet May 413 He kept his marriage a secret. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 450/2 This device has never been patented, but is a secret. 1890 J. Middlemass Two False Moves I. xv. 224 Much that she had heard that day must be kept a dead secret. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxvii. 363 If you were to keep this letter a secret from him. < as lemmas |
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