| 单词 |
secretness |
| 释义 |
† ˈsecretness Obs.
[f. secret a. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being secret.
1. Secrecy, privacy; reticence. in secretness: secretly.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. v. (Skeat) 13 A thing enclosed under secretnesse of privyte. a1475Ashby Active Policy 354 Kepe secretnesse as a secretarye. Ibid. 621 Whan any tellethe you any tale,..than kepe it in secretnesse treuleche. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) G j, He..ought to entre into his owne secretnes, and to thynke profoundely. 1560J. Daus tr Sleidane's Comm. 342 Now again muttering something in great secreatness. 1654Cokaine Dianea 246 Being grown impatient of my timerous secretnesse.. I asked her Advice: If it were better to discover ones flames to a Mistris by Letters, word of mouth, or by the Intercession of others.
2. That which is secret.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 13 And begane a litill while to hyde the secretnesse of his soule. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xcv. 310 Whan ye were prisoner in Babylone I dyscoueryd the secretnes of my mynde to hym, and shewed hym of y⊇ loue betwen you and me. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. T., Serm. Easterday 13 Then ought we..not to search rashly of that deepe secretnes aboue the measure of our vnderstanding. |
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