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单词 secrecy
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secrecyn.

/ˈsiːkrəsi/
Forms: α. Middle English secretee, 1500s secretie, secretye; β. 1500s–1600s secrecie (1500s secricie,), secresie, 1500s–1800s secresy, 1500s– secrecy.
Etymology: In 15–16th cent. secretee, -tie, apparently < secre adj. or secret adj. + -ty suffix1 or -y suffix3. Compare medieval Latin secretia a royal treasury. Late in the 16th cent. altered to secrecie, apparently after words like primacy n.
1. The quality of being secret or of not revealing secrets; the action, practice, or habit of keeping things secret.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > disposition to secrecy, secretiveness
secrecy1423
secretnessa1475
privacy1624
uncommunicativeness1751
snugness1778
secretiveness1815
cageyness1950
α.
1423 Kingis Quair xcvii Stude at the dure fair~calling hir vschere, That coude his office doon In connyng wise, And secretee, hir thrifty chamberere.
β. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 116 If you conceale this I must thinke that..you begin to suspect my secrecy.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 106 Constant you are, But yet a woman, and for secrecy No Lady closer. View more context for this quotation1616 F. Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Wks. (1872) VI. 41 And that the servants attending the clerks of the council be also bound to secrecy.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 50 By reason of his singular secrecy in keeping his purposes unknowne.a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 167 For who could expect secrecy in such a slave of Cleopatra.1778 F. Burney Evelina III. viii. 89 I have entreated Mrs. Selwyn to observe the strictest secrecy.1819 W. Scott Let. 4 Mar. (1933) V. 314 An intelligent friend in whose stile of expression prudence and secrecy his Grace could put perfect reliance.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 532 He arranged his plan with characteristic prudence, firmness, and secresy.1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) iv. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun]
dighelnessc1000
dernship?c1225
derna1250
concealmenta1325
hidnessc1330
hiddennessc1380
privy1384
secrenessc1386
secre1390
stillnessa1400
secretnessa1475
hodelnessec1475
scuggery?a1500
hugger-mugger1529
closeness1562
secrecy1563
privatenessa1586
covertness1592
hugger-mug1654
privacy1702
conspiracy of silence1865
hush-hush1973
α.
1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Hastings xc Your polytyke secretes gard with trusty loyaltye So shall they lurk in most assured secretye.
1581 M. Hanmer Iesuites Banner D 3 His sacrificing Priestes hearing confession were woonte to reueale unto him, all that in secretie was deliuered vnto them.
β. 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iv. iv. Iiiv Because in all thinges Secresie is a great furderaunce, it shalbe best that we draw our selues apart vnto one of your houses.a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D2 A friend of mine told me in secrecie, That hees repeald, and sent for backe againe.1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 404 The Lady Anne, Whom the King hath in secrecie long married, This day was view'd in open, as his Queene. View more context for this quotation1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 96 Nor is there any place,..wherein an Assemblie can receive Counsell with secrecie.1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 56 On his Return to Court, he was obliged to enter Rome with all the Secrecy of a Criminal.1819 J. Mackintosh Parl. Suffrage in Wks. (1846) III. 227 The first objection to this proposal is, that the Ballot would not produce secrecy.1881 G. M. Fenn 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. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun]
privity?c1225
reclusionc1430
abstractionc1450
recess?1532
privacy1534
solitariousness1545
retirea1554
secess1570
privatenessa1586
retirednessa1586
retirement1603
secrecy1607
closeness1612
shadow1612
privatea1616
recluseness1648
abstractednessa1653
recluse1665
abscondence1694
seclusion1785
seclusiveness1822
retiracy1824
secludedness1835
retraite1843
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 37 The males giue great honor to the females great with young, during the time of their secrecie.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 15 There is a question, whether when they be in this secrecie or drouzines, they awake not to eate.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 427 Thou in thy secresie although alone, Best with thy self accompanied, seek'st not Social communication. View more context for this quotation
3.
a. quasi-concrete. Something which is or has been kept secret; a secret; the secret nature or condition of something. Often collective singular or plural, secret matters, mysteries. Obsolete or archaic.
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
α.
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 38 The which book..Whylom compyled by Arystotilees, Which in sapience of Secretees hath the name.
1517 Tunstall in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. 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.
β. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 7 To answer stranger ciuely, but shew him not thy secresie.1594 Willobie his Auisa xliiii. f. 40 H. W...pyneth a while in secret griefe, at length..bewrayeth the secresy of his disease vnto his familiar friend W. S.1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 308 A famous Shepherd..to whose skill and knowledge, it seemed, nature it selfe with all her secrecies was subject.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 296 So shall my anticipation preuent your discouery, and your secrecie to the King & Queene. View more context for this quotationa1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) Contents The doctrine of our salvation is a hidden secrecy.1633 J. Ford Broken Heart ii. iii. sig. D4 I'me not inquisitiue Of secrecies without an inuitation.1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 44 Leaving secrecies to conscience.1660 Char. Italy 85 In the Secresies and Operations of Medecine none could excel Fracastorius [etc.].1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer (1901) 20 He solemnly swears his Host to keep counsel in a secrecy of such high consequence.1893 F. Thompson Poems 50 I in their delicate fellowship was one—Drew the bolt of Nature's secrecies.
b. The secret parts (of a person). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]
shapea1000
shameOE
i-cundeOE
memberc1300
privy memberc1325
kindc1330
privitiesc1375
harness1382
shameful parts1382
genitoriesa1387
partc1390
tailc1390
genitalsa1393
thingc1405
genitalc1450
privy parts1533
secret1535
loin?1541
genitures1548
filthy parts1553
shamefulness1561
ware1561
meatc1564
natural places1569
secret members1577
lady ware1592
natural parts1601
lady's ware1608
gear1611
private parts1623
groin1631
pudendums1634
natural1650
privacies1656
sex1664
secrecyc1675
nudities1677
affair1749
sexual parts1753
person1824
sex organ1847
privates1940
naughty bits1972
c1675 in Roxburghe Ballads (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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > knowledge of secrets
privity1560
secrecy1577
privacy1589
self-consciousness1655
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy > condition of being entrusted with secrets
secrecy1577
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. viii. xxv. 165 Euen he who was of his secretie [1619 secrecy] and companion at meate.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Ciii But Madame marke a while, and you shall see, Your Father shake him off from secrecie.
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. D2v By creeping close into his secrecie.
1671 H. M. Life in tr. Erasmus Colloq. sig. A2 He..betook himself to a Monastery of regular Cannons, where for some years he had the secresie of Gulielmus Hermannus of Buda a very studious and diligent youth.

Compounds

secrecy system n. a system for ensuring the secrecy of transmitted speech by scrambling it at the transmitter.
ΚΠ
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 752/2 Secrecy (or privacy) system, modification of speech-frequencies within the speech-band, so that during transmission from a radio transmitter to a receiver the signal is unintelligible and cannot be tapped.
1949 Bell System Techn. Jrnl. 28 656 (title) Communication theory of secrecy systems.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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