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单词 to keep secret
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to keep secret
a. Predicatively (esp. in to keep secret): Kept from public knowledge, or from the knowledge of persons specified; not allowed to be known, or only by selected persons.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective]
dernc897
dighela1000
hid?c1225
stillc1275
stillyc1275
covertc1303
secrec1374
secret1399
secretivec1470
covered1484
dark1532
underhid1532
hiddena1547
concealed1558
abstruse1576
unshewing1598
mystical1600
of secreta1616
mystica1625
subterraneous1652
researched1653
hugger-mugger1692
hidlingsa1810
sub rosa1824
cachet1837
cloak and dagger1841
theftuous1881
q.t.1910
closet1966
down-low1991
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep quiet about [phrase]
to keep or hold (a matter) counsel (later in counsela1400
to keep secret1399
to keep (something) dark1532
to draw a veil over1582
not to tell one's shirt1586
to keep one's (own) counsel1604
to put (also keep) in one's pocketa1616
to name no names1692
to make a secret of1738
to keep (‥) snug1778
to clap, put, or keep the thumb on1825
to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867
to hold back1956
to sweep (also brush, kick, etc.) (something) under the rug1956
to get it off one's chest1961
to sweep (or push) (something) under the carpet1963
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles Prol. 61 Lete ȝoure conceill corette it [sc. this treatise]..ffor ȝit it is secrette.
1474 [see sense A. 2a].
1481 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 317 Ye shal not dyscouer þe counsell of þe bretherynhod or of þe crafte, þt ye have knowlych of, þt shold be sekret wtyn ouer-selfe.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 3 Parys kept hys loue secrete.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxij I kept nothing secret from your Ambassadours.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 47 The Renegados..kept his death secret.
1799 R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 164 It was as much to their interest as my own to keep the affair secret.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 61 The task in which he was engaged was to be kept most strictly secret.
1879 ‘E. Lyall’ Won by Waiting xxx Bertha's flight must be kept secret.
extracted from secretadj.n.
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